Ring Engraved with a Hunter on Horseback

Description The hollow hoop is rounded on the outside and slightly ridged on the inside, with a spreading shoulder. On the oval bezel is a hunter on horseback wearing a Persian cap, brandishing a spear, and chasing an antelope. A hunt on horseback was the favorite recreation of Persian nobility. However, the type of ring and its style are typically Greek. It has been suggested that this ring belongs to a group made by local "barbarian" Anatolian craftsmen in imitation of the so-called Greco-Persian gems. The date is probably the second quarter of the fifth century BC.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
8/22/1960	Examination	other
2/01/1979	Examination	examined for condition

Exhibitions

• Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.

Provenance Collection of Newton-Robinson [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Collection of Newton-Robinson Sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 22, 1909, lot 44; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1909