Horoscope Ring with Bust of Asklepios (Primary Title)
Ring depicting Bust of Ascdepius (Former Title)
Unknown (Artist)
Asklepios, the Greek god of medicine, appears here with his symbol, a snake coiled around a staff. The inscription on the hoop give the personal horoscope of the owner, who was born in the 10th hour on the night of 16/17 August in the year 327.
Inscribed in greek (see file).
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
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Spatantike und fruhes Christentum, Liebieghaus Museum alter Plastik, Frankfurt am Main, December 16, 1983 - March 11, 1984
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Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 18, 1977 - February 12, 1978
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