Currently not on view
Octagonal ring with fish and anchor, inscribed "Despotikon",
6th–7th century
Early Byzantine
y1954-147
Information
Title
Octagonal ring with fish and anchor, inscribed "Despotikon"
Dates
6th–7th century
Medium
Gold
Dimensions
d. 0.3 cm, diam. 2.3 cm (1/8 x 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
y1954-147
Place Made
Eastern Mediterranean
Inscription
See accession card for reproduction of inscriptions.
Period
Type
Materials
Subject
Purchased from Margaret Burg, London, in 1954.
- "Recent acquisitions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 14, no. 1 (1955): p. 17-19., p. 19
- Slobodan Curcic and Archer St. Clair, Byzantium at Princeton: Byzantine art and archaeology at Princeton University: catalogue of an exhibition at Firestone Library, Princeton University, August 1 through October 26, 1986, (Princeton, NJ: Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton University Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1986)., no. 171; p. 145
