
An Ancient Roman hollow gold finger ring, with expanding shoulders, and an oval bezel, set with an exquisitely engraved carnelian intaglio.
Depicted on the intaglio is Fortuna, the Roman goddess of chance, elegantly dressed and carved. She is portrayed wearing a mural crown and with two of her attributes: a cornucopia in one arm and a gubernaculum, a rudder, in the other, which the goddess would have steer to control the changeable fortunes of life.
Top size : 16m x 14mm
Ring size: 7.
Weight: 13.91 g.
Period: Circa 1st – 3rd Century AD
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