Bidspirit auction | ROMAN CARNELIAN WAR TROPHY INTAGLIO


ROMAN CARNELIAN WAR TROPHY INTAGLIO IN A SILVER RING - Ca. AD 1 -100.A carnelian intaglio, intricately carved to depict a war trophy - a display of captured enemy weapons and armour, arranged on a cross-like structure. The intaglio is set in a possibly later silver ring.Size: D: 18.54mm; US: 8 1/2; UK: Q 1/2; weight 12gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.