finger-ring
- Museum number
- AF.426
- Description
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Gold finger-ring with a plain, thin hoop of plano-convex cross-section (flat interior surface, rounded exterior). The large, flat, oval bezel is engraved with two confronted, bearded male heads within a dotted border. Above the portraits is engraved IMP retrograde.
- Production date
- 2ndC (probably)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 16.20 millimetres (inner)
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Diameter: 17.50 millimetres (outer)
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Length: 12 millimetres (bezel)
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Weight: 4.11 grammes
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Width: 9.50 millimetres (bezel)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Marshall (BMC Rings, 1908) dates the ring itself, on the basis of its form, to the 4th or 3rd century BC, and therefore regards the engraved device as a secondary addition, added in the 2nd century AD. This is highly unlikely. Although the form is not typical of the later 2nd century AD, the whole ring must have been made at that period. The 'Emperors' represented are almost certainly Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, who ruled jointly between AD 161 and 169.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2019-2020, 27 Jul-16 Feb, Colchester, Colchester Castle, Essex Bling
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- AF.426
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Braybrooke.234