Ring with Portrait of a Courtier

Description This ring has a swivel bezel with an intaglio that depicts a head in profile to the left, sometimes identified as Asander I, King of Bosphorus. The signature "of Apollonios" is inscribed in Greek below the head.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
2/12/1957	Treatment	other
8/15/1960	Examination	other
1/14/1979	Treatment	cleaned
1/14/1979	Examination	examined for condition
6/15/1983	Loan Consideration	examined for loan
7/06/1984	Treatment	cleaned; other
10/01/1988	Treatment	cleaned
10/03/1988	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

• Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.
• From Alexander to Cleopatra: Greek Art of the Hellenistic Age. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1988-1989.
• Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World. 2016.

Provenance Morrison Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Morrison Sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1898, lot 261 [said to be from Kerch]; E. Guilhou, France, by 1912 [mode of acquisition unknown] [Guilhou no. 202]; Arthur Evans, Oxford, by 1938, [mode of acquisition unknown] [Evans inv. no. 65]; Jacob Hirsch, Munich, 1941 [executor of Evans' will]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.

Inscriptions [Translation] of Apollonios

Credit Museum purchase, 1942