Ringstone with a portrait of Mithridates VI Eupator
Datefirst half of the 1st century BCE
Periodlate Hellenistic
CultureAnatolian (Pontic)
MediumAmethyst
ClassificationGems
ProvenanceÉmile Gavet collection, Paris, 1870s–1880s; Mr. and Mrs. William K. and Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt, Gothic Room, Marble House, Newport, Rhode Island, 1889–1895; transferred to Mrs. Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont in divorce, 1895; (consigned to Duveen Brothers, New York); purchased by John Ringling, 1928; bequest to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1936-present.
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN1435.76
On View
Not on viewCollections
Height: 9/16 in. (1.35 cm)
Width: 7/16 in. (1.08 cm)
Thickness: 5/16 in. (0.77 cm)
Head
Height: 3/8 in. (0.90 cm)
Width: 1/4 in. (0.61 cm)
Bezel (when inset in ring)
Height: 1/2 in. (1.27 cm)
Width: 3/8 in. (0.98 cm)
Thickness: 1/8 in. (0.30 cm)
Medium Details
Color (Munsell soil color chart)
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