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A late roman gold ring set with emerald and garnets. <br><br>4th - 5th century A.D.
A late roman gold ring set with emerald and garnets.
4th - 5th century A.D.
Gold ring with five box-settings containing four cabochon garnets, and in the center a large rectangular emerald root. On each angle 4 spherical plain gold beads saldered together. The hoop is rounded and composed of a double grooved gibbon with in the center of two twisted and roped wires covered within by a gold plaque, extending under the rectangular box-setting onto 4 globular ramifications. Very rare.
Parallels: Marshall, F.H., Finger Rings, 1968, pl. XXI-XXII
British Museum, inv. 1981,0201.14
Int diam 20 mm; bezel 24 x 25 mm . 14,43 gr