Finger ring with intaglio
- Description
- The design on this ‘intaglio’ ringstone is difficult to interpret. The image seems to contain signs for the Egyptian ‘ankh’ and ‘Sa’, representing long life and protection. With it is the Greek or Roman thunderbolt image.
- Accession Loan No.
- 5/1946/403
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Common Name
- finger ring with intaglio
- Simple Name
- ring
- Full Name
- intaglio finger ring
- Dimensions
- diameter 20 mm; TH 10 mm
- Cultural Group
- Roman
- Period Classification
- Roman Period - 30 BC-AD 384
- Family Group
- Material
- silvered iron
- Collector / Excavator
- Montague, LAD, Lieutenant Colonel
- Collection Town
- Alexandria
- Collection Country
- Egypt
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Collection Continent
- Africa
