Finger Ring with Medallion | Yale University Art Gallery

2nd–3rd century A.D.

Medium: Greenish, uncolored glass covered with a thin, smooth, yellow ochre-colored patina, but not thick enough to conceal any details.
Dimensions: 1 3/8 × 1 1/8 in. (3.56 × 2.79 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1955.6.308
Culture: Roman
Period: Roman
Classification: Jewelry
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Bibliography

Gustavus A. Eisen, Glass: Its Origin, History, Chronology, Technic and Classification to the Sixteenth Century, 2 vols. (New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927), vol. 1, p. 332, pl. 25e

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finger rings

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