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Arys🏺🪶
@ArysPan
History&Archaeology 🏛 lover of the arts 🗿photography, architecture and of coffee☕ •Cycladic/Minoan/Mycenaean, Classical Greece, Hellenistic period, Byzantium•

Nov 11, 2022, 7 tweets

A small collection of #Roman Rings💍
#Archaeology

1/ Octahedral diamond ring made of gold. 3rd - early 4th century CE.

©MET, New York

2/ Carnelian Intaglio with a female head with long curls, identified as Galene (personification of calm at sea). 1st century CE

©Phoenix Ancient Art

3/ Made from a single piece of sapphire (hololith), is believed to have been owned by the Roman Emperor Caligula, who reigned from 37 CE until his assassination four years later. The ring possibly depicts his fourth wife Caesonia.

©Sold by Wartski to a private collector

4/ Gold wedding-ring set with a stone of aquamarine. The names Valerianus and Paterna are inlaid in niello around the edges of the ring. 3rd c. CE

©British Museum

5/ Gold ring with nephrite stone depicting the god Zeus Ammon. 1st century CE

©Getty Museum

6/ Gold ring with green chalcedony cameo of the goddess Minerna/Athena. 1st c. CE

©Getty Museum

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