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South Kensington Museum, 190, 315
Spanish rings, 85
Spartans, iron rings of,
Spencer, Leonard, ix
Spessartite, 33ö
Sphere, 86
Sphere ring, 88
Spinel, 86
Spodumene, 86
Squirt ring, 148
Staël von Holstein, Baron Erik Magnus 192
Stanbery, John, Bishop, ring of, 275
Starr, Friedrich, ix
State gems for ring setting 334, 335
Steevens, George, on Shylock's turquoise, 220
Stephen Radislav, King of Servia, nuptial ring of, 198
Sterling, John, "Onyx Ring" by, 324, 325
Stewart, Rev. Father William J., viii
Stone, George C, viii
"Stone of Invisibility" 307
Stone rings, 2, 21
"Stone of Remembrance, " 307
Stoudt, Rev. John Baer, ix
Stratonice, wife of Seleucus I, rings dedicated by, 251
Strickland, Agnes, 184
Suetonius, 134
Suffolk, Countess of, takes vow of widowhood, 287
Suidas, 312
Suhl, Sultan of, pearl ring given by, 236, 237
Sunstone, 335
Superstitious use of seal-rings, 122, 123
Surprise rings, 94
Surrya, Prince, 81
Swivel rings, 94
Sylla, signet of, 130
Symeon, Archbishop of Thessalonica, his description of Byzantine marriage ceremony about 1400 A. D., 202
Symbols, Christian, 253-255
Syrian rings, 124,125, 160 Τ
Tacitus on Germanic iron rings, 17
Taft, ex-President William H., ix. 161, 236
Talismanic and magic rings Albertus Magnus on, 311 Apollonius of Tyana's, 296, 325 Boniface VIII's, 306
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Charlemagne's, 300-302 Christian, in British Museum, 257 Clemens Alexandrinus on, 296 as charm against the Evil Eye, 236,
293
fortune-telling by means of, 299 of Frederick I of Prussia, 171, 172 of
Gesta Romanorum, 300, 306,345 of Gyges, 289-291 of Helen of Troy, 9SÌ, 292 "Hnited" (" The Welded") given to
King
Olaf, 323 in the "Mabinogian," 307 Sir John Mandeville on, 315 St.
Mark's, 312-314 of Minos of Crete, 291, 292 in "Morte d'Arthur," 309,
310 naoratna ring of Hindus, 78, 321 in Reynard the Fox, 303
"Saphir Merveilleux, " 325 Scandinavian, 323, 339 of Seluecus I,
Nicator, 293 in Sir Eglamore, 310 "Ring of Solomon," 288, 289 in
Sterling's "Onyx Ring," 324 superstitious use of, by Sagan
Karens, 308 Tewfik Pasha's experience with one,
322, 323 in "Book of Thetel," 811 one made by Abbot Tritheim, 314 in Wolfdietrich, 305, 306 in Yuain and Gawin, 310
Tanagra, ring from, 112
Tassi, Agosto, engraver of "Michelangelo's Signet," 147
Tavernier, Jean Baptiste, 143, 154, 155
Tedyngton, Richard, keeper of jewels of Edward the Confessor's shrine, 175
Tertullian on betrothal ring, 199
Tewfik Pasha, experience of, with a magic ring, 322, 323
Theodorus of Samos, engraver of ring of Polycrates, 120
Thomas, Dr. John, Dean of Westminster, 179
Thompson, C. J. S., ix
Thothmes III, ring of, 117
Thumb rings, 58, 87, 105-108, 194, 222
Thynnian rings, 70
Tiberius, seal ring of, removed when he became unconscious, 134
Tibetan, 81
Tin rings, 328
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