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<p>[QUOTE="Broucheion, post: 4998724, member: 104887"]<font size="4">Hi All,</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]1200120[/ATTACH]</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">∎ From Spier (1992): Many examples of intaglio and relief rings depicting a woman with melon coiffure are known, but they have not yet been studied in detail. The bestdiscussion is by O Neverov, who published a number of different types found at Black Sea sites ("A Group of Hellenistic Bronze Rings in the Hermitage," Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 127 [1974], pp 106-II 5, with English summary; also J Spier, Jwalt 47 [1989], p 21 n 17; Geneva, vol 3, p 164, no 218, & notes;]. Charbonneaux, "Monuments et memoires." Fondation E. Piot 50 [1958], p 95, figs. 7-8, in the Louvre; Oxford, gold intaglio set into an iron ring from Corfu, Oxford Gems, no 282; BMC Rings, nos. 1267-1269, 1275, 1277-1278; A Krug, Muse 14 [1980], p 35, fig 5, for two examples in the Agyptisches Museum, Berlin; Guilhou coll., no 797; many others remain unpublished).There can be little doubt that they represent a Ptolemaic queen, either Arsinoe II (278-270 BCE) or Berenike II (246-222/221 BCE), but many may be posthumous; theywere probably made for officials throughout the Ptolemaic territories.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">∎ From <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1917-0501-1267" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1917-0501-1267" rel="nofollow">BMC 1917,0501.1267</a>: Portraits of both royal and private individuals survive on finger rings made in a variety of materials, ranging from gold to glass. They werenot exclusively manufactured in Egypt and some may represent rulers of other Hellenistic kingdoms, and members of their courts. The royal images may be positivelyidentified by the presence of a diadem, and perhaps by the use of more expensive raw materials like gold. The aesthetic quality of the portraits varies greatly with thepoorer images perhaps belonging to members of the lower social classes who still wished to honour a particular dynast. The rings were used to seal documents. Theportraits were either carved in relief or cut in intaglio producing a raised image in clay.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">- Broucheion</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Broucheion, post: 4998724, member: 104887"][SIZE=4]Hi All, [ATTACH=full]1200120[/ATTACH] ∎ From Spier (1992): Many examples of intaglio and relief rings depicting a woman with melon coiffure are known, but they have not yet been studied in detail. The bestdiscussion is by O Neverov, who published a number of different types found at Black Sea sites ("A Group of Hellenistic Bronze Rings in the Hermitage," Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 127 [1974], pp 106-II 5, with English summary; also J Spier, Jwalt 47 [1989], p 21 n 17; Geneva, vol 3, p 164, no 218, & notes;]. Charbonneaux, "Monuments et memoires." Fondation E. Piot 50 [1958], p 95, figs. 7-8, in the Louvre; Oxford, gold intaglio set into an iron ring from Corfu, Oxford Gems, no 282; BMC Rings, nos. 1267-1269, 1275, 1277-1278; A Krug, Muse 14 [1980], p 35, fig 5, for two examples in the Agyptisches Museum, Berlin; Guilhou coll., no 797; many others remain unpublished).There can be little doubt that they represent a Ptolemaic queen, either Arsinoe II (278-270 BCE) or Berenike II (246-222/221 BCE), but many may be posthumous; theywere probably made for officials throughout the Ptolemaic territories. ∎ From [URL='https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1917-0501-1267']BMC 1917,0501.1267[/URL]: Portraits of both royal and private individuals survive on finger rings made in a variety of materials, ranging from gold to glass. They werenot exclusively manufactured in Egypt and some may represent rulers of other Hellenistic kingdoms, and members of their courts. The royal images may be positivelyidentified by the presence of a diadem, and perhaps by the use of more expensive raw materials like gold. The aesthetic quality of the portraits varies greatly with thepoorer images perhaps belonging to members of the lower social classes who still wished to honour a particular dynast. The rings were used to seal documents. Theportraits were either carved in relief or cut in intaglio producing a raised image in clay. - Broucheion[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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