1st century BC-1st century AD. A gold ring with D-section hoop, expanding at the shoulders; oval-shaped setting holding a polished red garnet cabochon with intaglio scene of winged Eros (Cupid) chasing Psyche, who is represented in butterfly form; intaglio gemstone possibly Hellenistic, dating 2nd-1st century BC. See Chadour, A.B., Rings: The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, Leeds, 1994, pp.47-48, for type.1.74 grams, 21.60mm overall, 18.01mm internal diameter (approximate size British O, USA 7, Europe 14.98, Japan 14) (3/4"). Ex Mr L.W. in 2005; formerly in an old private Israeli collection, since the 1990s. Psyche was the Greek goddess of the soul, the Roman goddess who protected the maidens, and the wife of Eros.