Lot 142 - Web-Auction 106

A late roman gold ring set with a carnelian intaglio. Venus Victrux.
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Description

A late roman gold ring set with a carnelian intaglio. Venus Victrux.

Intaglio 2nd century A.D. ; Ring 4th-5th century A.D.
Intaglio 7x11 mm ; US size ring 6.5 ; 6,38 grs

Ring rounded without and flatten within adorned on the shoulders and around the bezel of small gold spherical beads. The intaglio depicts Venus Victrix standing and facing left with her attributes. The stone is set in a later ancient gold mounting (late roman). Rare.
Metropolitan Museum NY, inv. 17.192.199
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U.K. private collection

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