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CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C-4TH CENTURY A.D.
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TWENTY ROMAN INTAGLIO RING STONES
circa 2nd century b.c-4th century a.d.
Including a garnet (standing goddess with staff); a green jasper (Minerva and Fortuna with heads of the Dioskuri); a plasma (Mercury); brown chalcedony (profile bearded head); banded agate (profile head, inscribed BAXX I); purple glass (profile bust of Isis); two of nicolo (a fish; a cornucopia and a poppy); three of red jasper (male deity with cornucopia; a capricorn, cornucopia and ship's rudder; a fly and a wreath); and nine of carnelian (Mercury; Apollo with laurel branch and tripod; Bonus Eventus; Minerva; profile female head; winged goddess; clasped hands with wheat and poppies; a lion; and a Sassanian bird)
.5/8 in. (1.6 cm) long for the largest (20)
circa 2nd century b.c-4th century a.d.
Including a garnet (standing goddess with staff); a green jasper (Minerva and Fortuna with heads of the Dioskuri); a plasma (Mercury); brown chalcedony (profile bearded head); banded agate (profile head, inscribed BAXX I); purple glass (profile bust of Isis); two of nicolo (a fish; a cornucopia and a poppy); three of red jasper (male deity with cornucopia; a capricorn, cornucopia and ship's rudder; a fly and a wreath); and nine of carnelian (Mercury; Apollo with laurel branch and tripod; Bonus Eventus; Minerva; profile female head; winged goddess; clasped hands with wheat and poppies; a lion; and a Sassanian bird)
.5/8 in. (1.6 cm) long for the largest (20)