Description
Six silver and brass finger rings, silver and bezel with an engraving of The Good Shepherd, early Christian-Greece/Byzantine, all rings are engraved and date to Roman and earlier; Bronze finger ring, intaglio design of a helmeted head, Roman 1st c. AD, purchased in Rome 1950, size 13; Bronze Centurions ring, intaglio Roman number “XXV” representing the number of a Legion “they were given out to the soldiers of a Centuria to serve as a ready means of identification”, Rome, 1st c. BC, purchased in Rome in 1950; Bronze with oval intaglio goat, incising on sides of shank, “Geometric Period”, c. 500 BC, purchased in Athens, Greece 1950; Bronze intaglio design of a standing female figure (Athena?), loop on shank, Etruscan, Roman or Greek, 2nd c. BC; Byzantine (Syria or Greece) bronze finger ring, crudely engraved Madonna and child, high conical round bezel, flat top signet ring, (1.3 cm dia), slender rounded hoop, size 8; (L.C. & P. Wyman collection).
Estimate: $400-600
