"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.
4 posted on 09/20/2010 7:38:15 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear
(The Doctrine of Nachofication: The belief that everything tastes better with melted cheese.)