A large Roman rock-crystal ring, bearing the portrait of a woman in extremely high relief; her ornate three-tiered hairstyle popular around the year 100 AD., housed at Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria [1075×913]
A large Roman rock-crystal ring, bearing the portrait of a woman in extremely high relief; her ornate three-tiered hairstyle popular around the year 100 AD., housed at Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria [1075×913]
**A piece with rarity is the large finger ring made of rock crystal. It bears in high relief the portrait of an older woman with a curly hairstyle artfully piled up in three rows, a hairstyle that was very fashionable around 100 AD. Perhaps Marciana is portrayed here, the wife of Trajan, the emperor under whose reign the empire reached its greatest extent.**
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I had no idea that the Romans made something like this.
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Museum Link
[https://www.khm.at/en/objectdb/detail/59093/](https://www.khm.at/en/objectdb/detail/59093/)
Google translate museum text (German to English)
**A piece with rarity is the large finger ring made of rock crystal. It bears in high relief the portrait of an older woman with a curly hairstyle artfully piled up in three rows, a hairstyle that was very fashionable around 100 AD. Perhaps Marciana is portrayed here, the wife of Trajan, the emperor under whose reign the empire reached its greatest extent.**
I had no idea that the Romans made something like this.
The skill to make is is astounding.