The Collection
I am an inveterate collector of things that mark both human history and the expanse of time long before that. Here are some items from the collection amassed over many years.
At the heart of the collection are just over 200 finger rings from the middle of the 2nd millenium BC to the 19th Century CE.
The Rings
Phoenician Silver Ring with Scarab. 7th - 8th Century BC
West Africa, Burkina Faso. Bronze Ring. ca 16th/19th Century.
Persia, Bronze Ring. 1st Millenium BC
Persia. Bronze Portrait Ring. ca 1st - 3rd Century CE
Roman/Byzantine Bronze Ring. ca 5th Century CE
Egyptian Blue Faience Horus Stirrup Ring. 18th Dynasty. 1550-1295 BC.
Romano-Egyptian Green Glass Ring. 1st - 3rd Century CE
Roman Bronze Ring. Horse. 1st - 3rd Century CE
Roman Bronze Ring. Boat with Sail. 1st - 3rd Century CE
European Merchant's Seal Ring. ca 16th Century.
Greek Bronze Ring. Pan or Satyr. 3rd - 4th Century BC
Mexico, Mixtec Copper Ring, Rain God Tlaloc. ca 1000 - 1200 CE.
Silver Viking Twist Ring. ca 11th century CE.
British Iron Decade Ring. ca 16th century.
Roman Bronze Key Ring. ca 100 - 300 CE
European Medieval Silver Stirrup ring with Nielo inlay. ca 13th Century
European Fino-ugric Silver ring. ca 14th - 16th Century
Egypt, New Kingdom, Late 2nd Millenium BC
Persia. Shield Ring. 1st - 2nd millenium BC.
ca 5th Century Byzantine Silver Ring
Egyption Ring Shank Mould. 18th Dynasty, ca 1150 - 1295 BC.
Chimu Silver (Electrum?) Ring. Northern Peru. ca1000 - 1200 CE
Persia. Trumpet ring. 1st - 2nd millenium BC.
Greek Bronze Ring. ca 3rd - 5th Centruy BC
Greek Hellenistic Child's Ring. 3rd - 1st Century BC
Engraved with a lion walking right.
Roman Bronze Ring. Horse and Rider. ca 100 - 300 CE
Roman Bronze Ring. ca 100 - 300CE
Roman Bronze Ring. ca 100 - 300CE
Islamic Gold Ring. ca 16th - 17th century CE