ROMAN SORCERER’S RING, 2ND-5TH CENTURY AD, SIZE 11 1/4 4 3/4 Funeral pyres were second for

Funeral pyres were second for highest status

6mm low rounded face

Large oval bezel with nubbed edge and raised central oval red “stone”

That practice is believed to derive from the custom of providing a bride’s price or dowry

ROMAN SORCERER’S RING, 2ND-5TH CENTURY AD, SIZE 11 1/4 4 3/4 Funeral pyres were second forImperial period. Gilt bronze with 2. 8mm slightly rounded face band slightly flared to the roped shoulders. Large circular bezel inscribed with the Tree of Life with the sorcerers lituus at its side. The lituus was the wand with which the sorcerer defined an area in the sky within which he viewed bird flights and like reading tea leaves, predicted the future from the information he gathered. Professionally refurbished with the 24karat gold surface