A Near Eastern ring with three garnet intaglios, thought to be Sasanian / Parthian, composes of a tear-shaped dark red garnet cabochon in the centre, depicting a bearded figure a bird and a horse, flanked by two oval garnet cabochon on the shoulders, carved with a bull and a winged bull respectively along with Pahlavi inscriptions, with ropework details around the collets, to a tapered hollow high carat gold shank, unmarked, comes with seal impression, ring size Q, ring head approximately 1.7 x 1.6 cm, total weight of item 7.6 grams.
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A Near Eastern ring with three garnet intaglios, thought to be Sasanian / Parthian, composes of a tear-shaped dark red garnet cabochon in the centre, depicting a bearded figure a bird and a horse, flanked by two oval garnet cabochon on the shoulders, carved with a bull and a winged bull respectively along with Pahlavi inscriptions, with ropework details around the collets, to a tapered hollow high carat gold shank, unmarked, comes with seal impression, ring size Q, ring head approximately 1.7 x 1.6 cm, total weight of item 7.6 grams.