Roman Gold Ring with Greek Boar Gem

4TH CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY B.C.

7/8 in. (1.93 grams, 22.40 mm overall, 15.77 mm internal diameter (approximate size British J, USA 4 3/4, Europe 8.69, Japan 8)).

Hollow-formed and widening at the shoulders to a high elliptical bezel set with a black and white banded glass intaglio imitating striped sardonyx, depicting a running boar in profile on a baseline; Greek letters KΠ on the surface under the boar; supplied with a museum-quality impression.

Provenance

Ex private collection, Contessa L.G., since the 1980s.
Private collection, acquired in 1997.

Literature

Cf. for the Greek Intaglio Spier, J., Ancient gems and Finger Rings, Catalogue of the Collections, The J. Paul Getty Museum, p.61, no.119.

Footnotes

The motif and style, a running boar with a tube-like body, seem to fit into Boardman's Wyndham Cook Group, and could be ascribed to the Graeco-Persian period, despite the fact that the gemstone was later incorporated into a Roman ring.

CONDITION

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