Ca. 100-300 ADA beautiful gold finger ring composed of a round hoop decorated with circumferential grooves and a bezel cell set with a carnelian intaglio depicting a pegasus, a winged horse. Pegasus, fathered by Poseidon, sprang out of his mother, the Gorgon Medusa, when the Greek hero Perseus cut off her head. Pegasus was tamed by the hero Bellerophon, who flew on the horse to kill the monstrous Chimera. For a comparison see G.M.A. Richter, Catalogue of engraved gems. Greek, Etruscan and Roman (The Metropolitan Museum of Art- New York), PLATE XLIX, n.395.Size: D: 19.51mm / US: 10 5/8 / UK: T; 3.11gProvenance: Private UK collection; from an old Oxford collection formed in the 1990s.