[SunkenCiv]

Tel Dor (Photo: Sky View/Courtesy of the Tel Dor Expedition)	Bronze signet ring with portrait of Apollo. (Microscope photo adapted by Paula Weimann Barak, Courtesy of the Tel Dor Expedition)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

"A piece of high-quality art such as this, doubtlessly created by a top-of-the-line artist, indicates that local elites developing a taste for fine art and the ability to afford it were also living in provincial towns, and not only in the capital cities of the Hellenistic kingdoms,"

Or a traveler couldn't pay his shot at the local inn and had to leave his ring in payment.

[Fido969]

"A piece of high-quality art such as this, doubtlessly created by a top-of-the-line artist,

Errr... Is it just me, or are there junior high school kids that could do something better than this in shop class?

[MHGinTN]

Angry girlfriend or mad wife threw it away when some guy tried to buy his way out of shame.

[beebuster2000]

how do they know it was Apollo? Looks like alexander to me.

[wildbill]

How do they determine that the head is a portrait of Apollo and not Alexander?

Alexander apparently passed through Dor so he had a connection there, the time is right, and wasn’t Alexnder often referred to as a reincarnation of Apollo himself?

Just askin’