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Description: | Complete copper alloy Roman finger ring of Henig type II. The bevel of the ring is set with a surviving oval orange glass intaglio. The intaglio is 9.02mm long and 7mm wide and is upstanding above the ring for 0.98mm. It is crudely carved with a fully draped figure standing right, possibly wearing a helmet. The left arm is raised, the right by the side. It is possibly a crude attempt at representing Minerva. The intaglio is set in the long broad, flattened top to the ring, i.e. the ring is semicircular in profile, when viewed with the flat portion uppermost. This flattened portion is 16.76mm long, before it curves round into the hoop, is 9.44mm wide and 2.34mm thick. To either side of the intaglio setting are three, parallel incised vertical lines, with two short horizontal incised lines or dashes above. The hoop is semicircular in section and flattened. It is 5.24mm wide at the point of curving away from the flattened top, tapering to a minimum width of 2.16mm. The hoop is 1.62mm thick at the thinnest point. The ring has an external diameter of 22.08mm and weighs 2.75g. The ring is abraded, but the original surface survives with a dull, dark green patina. After discovery, the ring hoop broke into two at a point just below either shoulder. The finder has subsequently glued it. Rings of this type date from the second half of the first century to the early part of the second century. See Henig 1978, A corpus of Roman engraved gemstones from British sites, page 55, figure 1, II. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 50
125 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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