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Description: | Cast silver finger-ring. Henig Type II. D-shaped hoop, with smoothly swelling profile. Broad bezel, flat, oval, orange/red carnelian intaglio setting flush with the surface of the ring. Engraved motif consists of eagle holding wreath in beak, standing right (head left); between two military standards. D: 25 Internal D:15.5 H:19 cf. example from Beckford, Glos. (Henig 1978, 228, no. 357) and Southwark in a pit dated c. A.D. 160 (Henig 1978, App. 186 Plate XXXI). Eagles were the birds of Jupiter, of the Roman state and of its army. Rings depicting an eagle with military standards would originally have belonged to legionaries.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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