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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 9470274, member: 5833&quot;]Thinking about it a bit more, it does have a feature I have noticed is consistent in Roman rings but rarely/never seen in modern designs: the oval of the engraved element, when the ring is on the hand, sits with the long axis perpendicular to the long axis of the finger, it sits athwart, so we see the goddess as sideways.&nbsp; A modern ring maker would not be able to resist positioning this figure so that she could easily be seen as upright without the wearer having to twist his hand around.</p><p><br /></p><p>It may in fact be an antiquity, or it may be a reproduction.&nbsp; There are a lot of both around &amp; I know of no sure way for the layman to tell them apart without provenance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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