Ring and oval bezel with two bulls flanking a tree
about 1600–1300 B.C.
Medium/TechniqueRock crystal
DimensionsLength (of bezel): 27 mm (1 1/16 in.)
Credit LineBartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912
Accession number27.658
On View
Not on viewClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
Collections
ProvenanceBy dates unknown: from Mycenae and Evans collection; purchased in Paris by Edward Perry Warren (according to J. D. Beazley, The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems, no. 4); April 5, 1926: loaned to MFA by Edward Perry Warren (as 55.26); November 17, 1927: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 161,000.00 (this figure is the total price for MFA 27.647-27.761)
6th century B.C.
late 6th century B.C.
about 6th century B.C.
6th–4th century B.C.
6th–4th century B.C.
5th–late 4th century B.C.
early 6th–late 4th century B.C.
early 6th–late 4th century B.C.
4th-5th century A.D. or early 19th century ?
mid 2nd to 3rd century A.D.
about 5th–4th century B.C.
mid-5th–mid-4th century B.C.