Flask from Olbia, found in 1913 in the robbed 1st century burial. [M. Treister]
The museum dates jewel back to the 1st century BCE.
Gold, blue enamel, garnet
Measurements: length with a chain 16.5 cm, bottle: L 4.5 x W [with loops] 5.5 x diameter 3.9 cm; weight 61.3 g.
“The cap has four blue-enamelled leaves arranged in a quatrefoil design around a garnet set within a ring of twisted wire.” [M. Treister]
In The Walters Art Gallery, inv. no. 57.380