Ricci, Seymour de: Catalogue of a collection of ancient rings formed by the late E. Guilhou (Paris: Berger, 1912)

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99. Gold. A ring with a raised bezel set with a very beau-
tiful carnelian intaglio : a youthful male head to left.
100. Gold. A plain ring, the oval bezel incised with a Cupid
kneeling before a lion and holding its paw.
101. Gold. A double ring, the two portions separated by a
zig-zag ornament, the bezel set with two small cabo-
chons, one being a garnet. Cf, n. 128.
102. Gold. A ring, the square bezel set with a bead of mo-
ther of emerald, with a tiny pearl right and left.
103. Gold. A plain ring, the circular bezel set with a car-
nelian intaglio : a beardless male head to left appa-
rently the Emperor Augustus.
104. Gold. An openwork ring, the bezel sot with a dull red
jasper intaglio : three male busts, one to right and two
to left.
These heads, apparently intended for Roman Empe-
rors are not easy to identify : the most likely conjec-
ture would be to call them Carus, Carinusand Nume-
rianus, whose heads are thus brought together on a very
fine bronze medallion in the Museum at Agram.
105. Gold. A plain ring (the mount apparently modern), the
bezel set with a fine carnelian intaglio : a man sitting to
left before a standing skeleton; behind him a head on
a rock.
The same subject is figured on a gem from the Blacas
collection, now in the British Museum and rightly
described by King, Antique gems and rings, vol. II,
plate XXXVI, fig. 8, as « Prometheus modelling the
framework of his man. »
106. Gold. A plain ring, the bezel set with an amethyst ca-
bochon.
Possibly Merovingian.