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DefinitionRing
MaterialBronze, blue glass
DimensionsDiam. ca. 20 mm Hoop: w. 4.5 mm tapering to 3 mm., th. 3.5 mm at the setting, tapering to 1 mm.; ht. at the inlay, 4.5 mm. Inlay: diam. 3.5 mm.
DescriptionBronze stirrup ring, hoop half intact, broken near the central ornament on one side, broken almost halfway around the hoop on the other. The small blue glass bead-shaped ornament is set into the apex of the swelling on the hoop. The hoop itself is decorated, with a grooved pattern of verticle notches, symmetrical on either side of the glass jewel.
State of ConservationClose to half of the hoop is broken away. However, the surface is clean save for a thin layer of dirt and patina.
ComparandaScarisbrick and Henig 2003, pl 6, n. 1

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