1987.135.29: Ring
JewelryIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1987.135.29
- Title
- Ring
- Classification
- Jewelry
- Work Type
- ring
- Date
- 9th-8th century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe
- Period
- Iron Age
- Culture
- Italic
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/303946
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Copper alloy
- Technique
- Cast and hammered
- Dimensions
- 2.2 x 0.4 cm (7/8 x 3/16 in.)
- Technical Details
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Technical Observations: The patina is green with areas of blue. Brown burial accretions are present in some areas. Some pitting and small losses have occurred, but the surface is fairly well preserved. The ring is not uniform in thickness or shape. The general shape was probably formed by casting and finished by hammering.
Henry Lie (submitted 2012)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Nagler
- Accession Year
- 1987
- Object Number
- 1987.135.29
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
Published Catalogue Text: Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes at the Harvard Art Museums
This simple ring is rounded on the exterior and flat on the interior. It was probably a decorative element, like the small ring attached to 1987.135.30 (1), rather than a finger ring.
NOTES:
1. See F. Jurgeit, Die etruskischen und italischen Bronzen sowie Gegenstände aus Eisen, Blei, und Leder im Badischen Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Terra Italia 5 (Pisa, 1999) 595, no. 1013, pl. 276; and K. Kilian, Früheisenzeitliche Funde aus der Südostnekropole von Sala Consilina (1970) 188-89, type R4a, pls. 43, 61, 78, and 89. Similar bands, such as Kilian’s type R4b, also have small rings attached, like 1987.135.30; see ibid., pl. 23, Gr A55. Compare also A. M. Bietti Sestieri and E. Macnamara, Prehistoric Metal Artefacts from Italy (3500-720 BC) in the British Museum (London, 2007) 19 and 195, “bracelet” type 4, nos. 638-44; a ring is attached to no. 638.
Lisa M. Anderson
Publication History
- Julie Wolfe, "Analysis of Iron Age Bronze Fibulae from Southern Italy in the Collection of the Harvard University Art Museums" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, June 1998), Unpublished, p. 1-14 passim.
Subjects and Contexts
- Ancient Bronzes
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Verification Level
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