A Greek gold ring with a portrait bust of a Ptolemaic Queen
A Greek gold ring with a portrait bust of a Ptolemaic Queen
Hellenistic Period, circa 3rd Century B.C.
Of hollow gold, the hoop rounded on the exterior, flat on the interior, expanding at the shoulders to the flat oval bezel, engraved with a profile portrait of a bust of a woman facing left, wearing a chiton, her hair arranged in a chignon at the nape of her neck, with ringlet tresses falling onto her shoulders, wearing a crescentic diadem and large earrings with Eros pendant, depicted with Venus rings at her neck and a droplet necklace, a sceptre in the field, 25mm high, the bezel 22mm wide, ring size N
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A Greek gold ring with a portrait bust of a Ptolemaic Queen
Hellenistic Period, circa 3rd Century B.C.
Of hollow gold, the hoop rounded on the exterior, flat on the interior, expanding at the shoulders to the flat oval bezel, engraved with a profile portrait of a bust of a woman facing left, wearing a chiton, her hair arranged in a chignon at the nape of her neck, with ringlet tresses falling onto her shoulders, wearing a crescentic diadem and large earrings with Eros pendant, depicted with Venus rings at her neck and a droplet necklace, a sceptre in the field, 25mm high, the bezel 22mm wide, ring size N
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