CIRCA LATE 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

According to C. Johns, "Very elaborately carved amber finger-rings with bezels that must rank as small sculpture were made at a major manufacturing center at Aquileia in Northern Italy" (The Jewellery Of Roman Britain: Celtic and Classical Traditions, p. 71). There was clearly an export market for such rings as they have been found across the continent and in modern Great Britain. For a similar but more weathered example with the bezel depicting the bust of a woman see accession no. 2000.196 in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.