Gold ring with gem depictingTyche/Fortuna
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 Tyche/Fortuna wearing a diadem, facing left and holding cornucopia in her left hand. Her left arm is bent at the elbow, as it is the right one. Her right arm is also stretched forward. The parallel lines depicted perpendicular to the base of the diadem, are probably conveying its ‘mural crown’, another attribute of the goddess.
Height 2.24 cm. Width 2.25 cm. Bezel: 1.38 × 1.70 cm, overall thickness complete with inlay 6.4mm. Inlay: 1.37 × 1.17 cm. Hoop: at the bottom in section 1.1 mm, width at the top 5.4 mm, thickness 2.8 mm.
Quantity
1
Comment
List 841. KIKZ, Temporary storage No. 5300.
Container
Wooden casket
Material
Gold
Hoard
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