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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1920.44.214
Title
Ring in Form of Coil
Classification
Jewelry
Work Type
ring
Date
7th-2nd century BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Etruria
Period
Archaic period to Hellenistic
Culture
Etruscan
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303786

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Copper alloy
Technique
Hammered
Dimensions
1.8 x 1.8 x 1.8 cm (11/16 x 11/16 x 11/16 in.)
Technical Details

Technical Observations: The patina is pale green over brown; there are some areas of exposed metal and cuprite. There is a corroded stress crack, but otherwise the coil is intact.

The coil was made by hot working and hammering a rod over a form, which resulted in a spiral with unevenly thick coils, a flattened inner surface, and a rounded outer surface.


Carol Snow (submitted 2002)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1920.

Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Norton
Accession Year
1920
Object Number
1920.44.214
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The ring, with four complete coils, is curved on the exterior and concave on the interior. There is a slight midridge on the exterior. It would have perhaps been used as decoration rather than worn as a finger ring.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Ancient Bronzes

Verification Level

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