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Description: | A circa 2nd to 3rd century AD gold pendant, ovoid, set with a blue-grey glass paste intaglio, very worn, pitted and devitrified. The setting has a central rib and all that remains of the attachment is a single gold filigree loop. The intaglio depicts a robed seated figure facing right, holding a sceptre in his right hand and an uncertain object in the left. The figure may represent Jupiter but is too worn to be certain. A parallel for the intaglio can be found in Henig 2007, no. 10.ReferencesHenig, M., 2007. A Corpus of Roman Engraved Gemstones from British Sites: With a New Preface and Bibliography. United Kingdom: British Archaeological Reports.Dr Richard Hobbs, Curator, Romano-British Collections, Prehistory & Europe, The British Museum
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