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PROPERTY FROM A DUTCH PRIVATE COLLECTION

A GREEK GOLD AND CARNELIAN FINGER RING
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
The oval carnelian scaraboid mounted in a dog-tooth setting, perforated lengthwise and threaded with a gold wire, the sides of the bezel ornamented with beaded wire filigree in a scrolling pattern between plain bands, with plain sheet on the underside, the hoop composed of two bands of twisted wire, edged with a plain central wire
1 in. (2.5 cm.) wide

PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Rotterdam, acquired prior to 1975; thence by descent.
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For rings with stones mounted in dog-tooth settings see, no. 34 in D. Williams and J. Ogden, Greek Gold, Jewellery of the Classical World, and no. 86 in B. Deppert-Lippitz, Griechischer Goldschmuck. For two rings from Tharros, Sardinia, with similarly ornamented bezels see nos 694 and 695 in F. H. Marshall, Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan & Roman in the Department of Antiquities.

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