Ancient gold and carnelian scarab ring. Etruscan, 4th Century B.C.

An Ancient gold and carnelian scarab ring.

Etruscan, 4th Century B.C.

The scarab is modelled naturalistically, carved on the underside in the globolo style with a goat, set in a gold mount and pierced by a gold wire wound around the top of each end of the shank, which appear to be modelled as stylised lion heads.

The scarab measures 10mm,

Ring size G 1/2,

Weighs 2.6 grams.

Provenance:
With Mansour Gallery, London.
Private collection, Hong Kong, acquired from the above on 14 October 2003.

For another Etruscan scarab with a globolo drilled goat see J. Boardman and M.-L. Vollenweider, Catalogue of the Engraved Gems and Finger Rings in the Ashmolean Museum, Vol. I Greek and Etruscan, Oxford, 1978, p.65, no 276, pl.XLII.