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Ancient Roman Silver Billon Ouroboros Ring Wearable

Ancient Roman Silver Billon Ouroboros Ring Wearable Roman photo   Category : Antiquities > Roman
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Uploaded by samusja on Feb 5, 2017
        
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Category : Antiquities > RomanItem Id: 180762
Material: silver billonProvenance: ex collection of a gentleman
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Dimensionsinner diameter about 18 mm
There is gnostic gem from Roman-era Egypt (1st century AD), with an ouroboros surrounding a scarab and voces magicae, characters representing magic words
The first known appearance of the ouroboros motif is in the Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld, an ancient Egyptian funerary text in KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, in the 14th century BC
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