ROMAN GOLD RING WITH CARNELIAN INTAGLIO OF STANDING MINERVA
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Ca. 100-300 AD A gold finger ring composed of a thin flat-section hoop and a bezel set with a carnelian intaglio depicting right-facing standing and helmeted Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, medicine, the arts, poetry, and handicrafts. Later in Roman history, she became the goddess of war especially important within the Roman pantheon.Size: D: 15.27mm / US: 4 1/2 / UK: I 1/2; 1.91gProvenance: Private UK collection; from an old Oxford collection formed in the 1990s.
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ROMAN GOLD RING WITH CARNELIAN INTAGLIO OF STANDING MINERVA
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