Finger Ring

MS3355

From: Italy

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS3355
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Italic | Etruscan
Provenience Italy
Date Made 300 BCE to 100 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Gold
Iconography Clasped Hands
Description

Gold finger ring, openwork bezel of clasped hands with elongated fingers. Intact. Plain ring, small adult size. Each end of the overlapping ring ends in a hand. The two hands are touching, palm to palm, fingers outstretched, and extended in opposite directions.

Length 1.5 cm
Outside Diameter 2.2 cm
Credit Line Museum Purchase; subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896
Other Number 18 - Other Number

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