Sardonyx ring stone
A small oval sardonyx ring stone with a carved bust of a woman, her face pale against the reddish-brown banded ground. The hair is drawn back and the neckline shows fine dotted detail. A metric ruler below gives the scale of the gem.
Look closer: Fine dotted pattern along the lower neckline of the bust.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1st century CE
- Medium
- Sardonyx
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Size
- 4000 × 4000 px
Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 105).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Rupert L. Joseph, 1948