This detailed replica of a Celtic ring depicts a stylized ancient face and was created according to a historical model from the 4th century BC Latin period.
The original Latin ring was made entirely of gold and is now housed in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The Celtic ring measures 2.5 cm wide. The Latin-era ring is not closed at the bottom - the ends run parallel and overlap by about 1.5 cm. This makes it easy to reduce or increase the diameter by several sizes.
Rings from the Latin period are rarely found and were mostly made of bronze, but in the early Celtic period there were also luxury rings made of pure gold. As early as the Hallstatt period, the Celts created rings with symmetrical geometric designs decorated with triangles, circles and rhombuses. Under the influence of Greek and Etruscan art, Mediterranean ornaments and motifs also appeared in the Celtic Lateran culture at the end of the 6th century BC.
Initially, naturalistic motifs such as human faces, animals and depictions of palm and acanthus leaves dominated the art. In the late Late Latin period, sculptural knotwork ornaments began to appear, which gradually turned into a complex web of spirals and intertwining loops.
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