CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMANO-BRITISH RED JASPER INTAGLIO WITH PRIESTESS OF ISIS
CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
Oval, with her 's'-curved body and head facing right, holding a sistrum in her left hand and by her side in her right hand the situla of sacred Nile-water, in later gilt hoop
Intaglio 9/16 in. (1.4 cm.) high; ¾ in. (1.9 cm.) across inner hoop

Provenance

Reputedly found in the vicarage garden, Wroxeter, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, prior to 1859. By descent to the present owner whose great great-aunt, as a child, had been given the ring as a gift from the Vicar of Wroxeter, the Revd. Edward Egremont, M.A.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
T. Wright, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, XIX, 1863, p. 109, pl. 10; J. C. Anderson, Roman City of Uriconium, 1867, p. 82; T. Wright, Uriconium, London, 1872, p. 317;
The Victoria History of Shropshire, I, 1908, p. 255, fig. 28;
E. and J. R. Harris, The Oriental Cults in Roman Britain, Leiden, 1965, p. 80; M. Henig, A Corpus of Roman Engraved Gemstones from British Sites, Oxford, 1974, p. 230, no. 359; and G. C. Boon, An Isiac Intaglio from Wroxeter Rediscovered, The Antiquaries Journal, LXII, part II, 1982.

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