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The intaglio portrays the horned and bearded head of Zeus Ammon, a conflation of the chief divinities of ancient Greece and Egypt. His oracular temple at the Siwa oasis in the Libyan desert was most famously visited by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C., but it continued to be consulted well into Roman times.
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Title: Gold ring with carnelian intaglio: Head of Jupiter Ammon
Period: Late Imperial
Date: 3rd century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Carnelian, gold
Dimensions: H.: 2 1/16 x 1 1/4 in. (5.3 x 3.1 cm)
Classifications: Gems, Gold and Silver
Credit Line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881
Accession Number: 81.6.55
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