3rd-1st century BC. A large, beautifully preserved Hellenistic pale glass finger ring, cast from light green transparent glass, broad D-section hoop, the broad concave bezel of oval form with a recessed face and raised, bevelled edges, possibly missing its original setting (with a gem or amulet) which would have been fastened with a metal clasp. Compare a similar example at the British Museum, inventory number 1896,0201.122, and another ring at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 91.1.1518; for examples in light green, colourless or blue glass, preserved in the Louvre, Paris, see Arveiller-Dulong, V. and Nenna, M.D., Les Verres Antiques du Louvre, v. col. III, Paris, 2011, pp.246-7, nos.345-7.7.32 grams, 28.65mm overall, 17.51mm internal diameter (approximate size British J, USA 4 3/4, Europe 8.69, Japan 8) (1"). Property of an Austrian private collector since the 1970s.