DESCRIPTION
Our ring is based on part of the border of two meticulously crafted bracelets with rock crystal hoops and gold ram’s heads. The original bracelets are from Greece, around 330–300 B.C., and are now in the Museum’s collection.
- 14K gold with 24K gold overlay
- 3/8''W
- Available in size 6, 7 or 8
- Matte finish
ART HISTORY
Jewelry played an essential role in ancient Greek life, ritual, and death. Artistic representations of daily activities, as well as literary accounts of historical events, reveal how fashionable Greeks used jewelry to display wealth and prestige. People offered jewelry as gifts to the gods at turning points in their lives and bestowed it in celebrations of marriage and birth. Jewelry also accompanied people in death. The deceased could be buried wearing favorite pieces, or funerary adornments might be made especially for entombment. While often colorfully enameled, classical Greek jewelry, unlike that of the Egyptians or Romans, tended to exclude gemstones; and though most surviving examples are of gold, less precious pieces in silver and bronze were probably more commonplace.
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