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Description: | Fragment, silver finger-ring. Broken flat rectangular bezel. Hoop is slightly angular at shoulder, beginning to curve but broken. Inscribed in capital letters on the flattened part of the hoop forming a bezel [...].ITA[...].IATThere is an upper serif in the broken edge of line 1, appropriate to V, but not excluding other letters. In the broken edge of line 2, there is part of a vertical stroke, either N or I. Perhaps vita | [ve]niat, 'Come, (my) life'.Appearing dark grey/black with patches of red brown and dark grey on fractures.L: 13mm; W. bezel: 10.3mm; W. Shoulder: 9.6mm; Th: 1.4mm; Wt: 1.6g.Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis by R. Fillery-Travis at Institute of Archaeology, UCL indicated that the silver content is approximately 87%.Transcribed Dr Roger Tomlin. (26.11.07)
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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