Gold ring with gem depicting Nemesis
Together with the other two rings, it had been wrapped in an offcut of a decomposed textile together with a silver ring, the corrosion of which had made them all fuse together. To judge from the microscopic fragments impregnated with oxides, it had been thin silk of very close weave. The bundle with precious rings had been fastened together with a small bow-shaped bronze fibula, which was completely corroded and which disintegrated when work began to clean it. The ring had been made using a technique customary for Bosporan jewelry in the 1st century AD – from two thin strips of gold leaf, soldered together and with a sulphurous mass between them.
The ring belonged to the Bosporan School of Stone-Cutting.
On the gem, standing Nemesis is depicted with her head shown in profile facing left, but with her body facing forward and holding palm branches. The folds of her garment at the waist are conveyed with three thin and almost parallel, vertical notches.
Height 2.19 cm. Maximum width 2.14 cm – Bezel: 1.41 × 1.50 cm, thickness with the inlay 5.3 mm. – Inlay: 1.08 × 1 cm. – Hoop: in section at the bottom 1.1 × 1.5 mm, width at the top 6.5 mm, thickness 2.1 mm.
Quantity
1
Comment
List 842. KIKZ, Temporary storage, No. 5301.
Container
Wooden casket
Material
Gold
Hoard
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