Republican Roman Gold Ring

with cornelian intaglio of Fortuna Gubernatrix, goddess of fate, commerce, bounty. She stands right, draped and wearing a fillet, she cradles a Cornucopia in her right arm, a sheaf of grain and a ship's rudder in her outstretched left hand. Intact, Italy or Turkey.

Intact.

1st Century BC

Height: 2.7 cm. (1 1/16 in.)

U.S. ring size: 6.5

#1841a

ex: private European collection, 1980s-1997

Published: Antiquarium Ltd.; Women in Ancient Art (New York, 1997) p.24

Comparandum: Weiss, C (ed.); Antike Gemmen in deutschen Sammlungen : die antiken Gemmen der Sammlung Friedrich Julius Rudolf Bergau im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nurenberg (Nurenberg, 1996) pp.83-84, nos. 137-143, pl.19