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Description: | Copper alloy Roman finger ring of Henig type Xb. Catherine Johns describes this type of ring as having ?hunched? shoulders (Johns, 1996, The Jewellery of Roman Britain, London, UCL Press, page 50). The hoop of the ring is sub triangular in section and almost D-shaped in profile, as the two shoulders are noticeably cusped. Each shoulder is decorated with an incised, vertical line, just below the point where they are cusped, otherwise the hoop is plain. The bezel is set high above the shoulders and is oval. It is set with a flat blue glass intaglio. The intaglio is crudely carved with a bare headed prancing figure, which may be a satyr with a horse?s tail showing behind. The glass is now abraded and dull. The ring has an external diameter of 25.54mm and an internal diameter of 18.14mm. The hoop is 2.12mm thick and 3.1mm wide at the back, expanding to 7.8mm wide and 3.42mm thick at the shoulders. The bezel is 5.36mm high (excluding the intaglio), 17.32mm long and 12.66mm wide. The intaglio is 13.78mm long, 10.74mm wide and has a visible height of 1.4mm. The ring weighs 8.86g. the ring survives in good condition with an even mid green patina. Rings of this type date from the 3rd century. | 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: | 200
300 | 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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