Ring with Dionysus

3rd century BCE (Hellenistic)

2.5 cm 2.8 cm

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This massive gold ring has a convex bezel set with a garnet intaglio representing a young man crowned with an ivy wreath. This image could either be an image of the wine-god Dionysus or a portrait of King Ptolemy IV Philopator (221-204 BC) in the guise of this deity.

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Morrison Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Morrison Sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1898, lot 255; E. Guilhou, France, by 1912 [mode of acquisition unknown] [Guilhou no. 268]; Arthur Evans, Oxford, by 1938, [mode of acquisition unknown] [Evans inv. no. 76]; Jacob Hirsch, Munich, 1941 [executor of Evans' will]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.
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