Signet finger-ring engraved with three running lions
On display
Details
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Title
Signet finger-ring engraved with three running lions
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Associated place
Istanbul (place of purchase) -
Date
4th century AD (AD 301 - 400) -
Material and technique
gold
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Object type
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Dimensions
359 g (weight)
2 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by C. D. E. Fortnum, 1897.
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Museum location
First floor | Gallery 30 | Mediterranean World -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
ANFortnum.FR.333
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Further reading
Scarisbrick, Diana and Taylor, Gerald, Finger rings from Egypt to the present day (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1978), no.204, p.42
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