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A Gold Ring Found Near Grantham
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page 382 1 Now in Lincoln City and County Museum. Accession No. 18.75.
page 382 2 Width of ring: external 19 mm.; internal 16 mm. Depth of ring: external 21 mm.; internal 17 mm. Width of bezel at setting, 14 mm.
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page 382 3 The intaglio is circular and slightly convex, dimensions 12 × 12 mm. The surface exhibits some evidence of wear and there is a crack across it.
page 382 4 For a general discussion of ancient soldering techniques used on gold see Thouvenin, A., ‘La Soudre dans la construction des ceuvres d'orfevrerie antique et ancienne’, Revue Arch, de l'Est et du Centre-Est, xxiv (1973), 11–68Google Scholar.
page 383 1 Pliny, NH, xxxiii, 25.
page 383 2 We are indebted to Peter Mitchell for assembling and finishing this ring.
page 383 3 Furtwängler, A., Königliche Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der geschnittenen Steine, Berlin, 1896, no. 1411Google Scholar.
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page 383 5 E. Schmidt, Antike Gemmen in Deutschen Sammlungen, i, part 2, Staatliche Münzsammlung München (italische Glaspasten vorkaiserzeitlich), Munich, 1970, nos. 1571, 1573 (brown glass), 1572 (black glass).
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page 383 7 Cf. Martin Henig, ‘The Veneration of Heroes in the Roman Army. The evidence of engraved gemstones’, Britannia, i, 1970, 249–65 especially 255, on the significance of the spear in the ethos of the Romans.
page 383 8 Marshall, op. cit., p. xlii, Type C. xxv (= No. 385 from Perugia). For the later type of ring, ibid., p. xlvi, Type E. xvi.
page 384 1 Chiesa, G. Sena, Gemme del Museo Nazionale di Aquileia, Aquileia, 1966Google Scholar. She discusses the rapid increase in gem production and the introduction of glass intaglios at this time.
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page 384 4 Petronius, Satyricon, xv, 32.
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