Gold ring with inscribed onyx cameo
On display
Details
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Title
Gold ring with inscribed onyx cameo
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Associated place
The Roman World (place of creation) -
Date
c. AD 300 -
Material and technique
gold; black onyx
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Object type
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Dimensions
1.3 cm [bezel] (length)
1.12 cm (width)
1.99 cm [hoop] (diameter)
7.41 g (weight) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by C. D. E. Fortnum, 1897.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 13 | Rome -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
ANFortnum.FR.796
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Further reading
Scarisbrick, Diana and Taylor, Gerald, Finger rings from Egypt to the present day (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1978), no.156, p.39
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