Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman - In the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum #227231

This Catalogue of the Finger Rings, prepared by Mr. F. H. Marshall, marks in some respects a new departure in the series of Departmental publications to which it belongs. It includes not only the rings of this Department, but also those rings which, although Greek or Roman of the classical period, are for any reason to be found in other Departments of the Museum. (see note below.) A large proportion of those here described belongs to the series collected by the late Sir A. W. Franks, and bequeathed by him in 1897. In many instances these rings have designs carved either in the metal bezels or in stones set in them. These designs belong more properly to the Catalogue of Gems, in the new edition of which they will be fully dealt with. As the present Catalogue deals primarily with the types of rings, and not with the subjects of the engravings, such designs are here described as they appear on the rings and not from casts. For the same reason, no special prominence is given to the subjects '(as in other volumes of this series) by the use of Clarendon type.