Catalogue of early Christian antiquities and objects from the Christian East in the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities and ethnography of the British museum; (1901)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 59
yrna. 2. MARRIAGE RINGS. 207. Gold SIGNET-RING ; the hoop forming seven circular medallions divided bypellets (cf. no. 190), engraved with maleand female busts alternating, each pairbeing identical. The lines are filledwith niello, and on each side of thehead in each medallion is a branch orflower… … bezel is rectangular, deeply engravedbust confronted; above them a cross. ENGRAVED GEMS AND RINGS 3.3 The man wears a chlatnys with fibula on the r. shoulder, the female a mantlecovering both shoulders, earrings and a necklace.See figure, ^th century. D. i02 in. L. of bezel, -5 in. Franks Bequest,…
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