EASTERN ROMAN RED JASPER INTAGLIO WITH WOLF AND STAR IN SILVER RING

Ca. AD 200 - 500. A red jasper intaglio engraved with a wolf walking on a groundline beneath an eight-pointed star. The intaglio is set in a possibly later silver ring with a slender hoop, broad shoulders and paired volutes. Size: D:17.73mm / US: 7 1/2 / UK: O 1/2; Weight: 4.2g Provenance: Private London collection; previously in an Austrian private collection dating to the 1980s–early 1990s.