Finger Ring Depicting Aphrodite

late 4th century BCE

Greek

Status: On View, Gallery 152
Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Culture: Ancient Greek
Title: Finger Ring Depicting Aphrodite
Place: Ancient Greece (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 350 BCE–301 BCE
Medium: Gold
Dimensions: Face: Diam.: 2.4 cm (1 in.); Shank: Diam.: 2 cm (3/4 in.); H.: 1.7 cm (11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
Reference Number: 1934.417
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Louise Berge and Karen Alexander. “Ancient Gold Work and Jewelry from Chicago Collections.” The Ancient World Vol. 11, nos. 1 and 2 (1985), pp. 17, 29 (cat. 108), pl. VIII.
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p.38.

Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, November 11, 2012 - present.

Emily Crane Chadbourne (1871- 1964), Paris, London, and Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1934.

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