The convex oval ringstone is engraved with a maenad dancing ecstatically and playing cymbals. Her weight is on one foot, on a short groundline, with the other leg bent back. Her head is thrown back and turned frontally, and her drapery billows around her. The stone is mounted as a ring in a 19th century gold setting. The subject was popular on gems and rings already by the 4th century B.C. (see the Greek gold ring in the Getty Museum, no. 52 in J. Spier, Ancient Gems and Finger Rings). See also the glass example, no. 381, with a list of others, in E. Zwierlein-Diehl, Antike Gemmen in Deutschen Sammlungen, Band II, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Antikenabteilung, Berlin, and the cameo, no. 58 in C. Gasparri, Le Gemme Farnese. Boardman and Wagner, op cit., Masterpieces, comment that the present example may possibly be of the 18th century, but Sangiorgi and other earlier writers considered it ancient.
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