Finger Ring Engraved with a Man Riding a Horse

JewelryGreek4th-3rd century BCE

Finger Ring Engraved with a Man Riding a Horse

mid 4th-3rd century BCE

Classification

Jewelry

Technique

Cast, lost-wax process

Medium

Copper alloy

Culture

Greek

Period

Classical period, Late, to Hellenistic

Century

4th-3rd century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

1.9 x 2.2 x 2.3 cm (3/4 x 7/8 x 7/8 in.)

Provenance

David M. Robinson, Baltimore, MD, (by 1949), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1960.

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