On a site on Carlisle in Cumbria, England, that once held a high-status Roman bathhouse, archaeologists have unearthed 34 gems, variously cut from amethyst, jasper, and cornelian, and dating back to ...
Though the intaglio dates to the days of Roman Britain (43 to 410 A.D.), the silver seal that holds it was likely made in the 13th or 14th century. Norfolk County Council under CC BY 4.0 Last August, ...
A first through third century CE Roman intaglio in a modern setting is one of the around 2,000 missing from the British Museum. (© The Trustees of the British Museum, courtesy British Museum) The new ...