finger-ring

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Object Type
Museum number: 1900,1123.3
Description: Gold finger-ring with angular hoop expanding into a foliate design at the shoulders; oval bezel with scalloped borders, containing an onyx cameo engraved with the head of Medusa.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 3rdC
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Sully Moors (Sully Moors hoard)
Materials: gold; onyx
Technique
Bibliographic references: Tait 1976 / Jewellery Through 7000 Years (384b); Tait 1986a / Seven Thousand Years of Jewellery (539); Roman Britain 1964 / Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain (p. 26, fig. 13.2); Finger Ring / Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum (544)
Location: On display (G49/dc11)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2006 31 Mar-29 Oct, York, Yorkshire Museum, Constantine 2016 26 Jan- 30 Oct, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, Treasures: Adventures in Archaeology
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1900
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1900,1123.3

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