Intaglio ringstone with image of a horse
- Description
- This Bactrian ringstone is made from three layered sardonyx. The image shows a horse with an unidentified object in front of him, possibly an altar or thronel. The inscription around the edge is in Greco-Bactrian and translates as to ’the rich god’. This could be a dedication to the Persian god Mithra.
- Accession Loan No.
- 5/1946/374
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Common Name
- intaglio ringstone with image of a horse
- Simple Name
- ringstone
- Full Name
- intaglio ringstone depicting a horse
- Cultural Group
- Bactrian
- Family Group
- Material
- sardonyx
- Collector / Excavator
- Montague, LAD
