A GRAECO-EGYPTIAN BRONZE BEZEL OF A FINGER RING. PORTRAIT OF ARSINOE II (?)
Ptolemaic period, 3rd century BCE
Dim. 18 x 22 mm

Provenance
Formerly with, Janet Zakos, Zurich 24.3.1984

Bronze finger-ring bezel with a relief portrait. A woman, perhaps Arsinoe II, to left, draped, the hair arranged in the so-called melon coiffure, a hairstyle often associated with the Ptolemaic dynasty and members of their court.
For a similar portrait on a bezel finger ring see British Museum, 1917,0501.1267.

Estimate: 500 - 800 CHF