Intaglio ring

Panticapaeum, Bosporus, 2nd–3rd century

Site: Panticapaeum (Kerch)

Hollow gold ring decorated with filigree on the shoulders, colourful banded agate with nicolo intaglio depicting Apollo in profile with a branch and taeniae.

1.8 × 2.2 cm / weight 7.2 g.

UMP 13444

Similar rings appeared in as early as the Late Hellenistic and Early Roman periods.