Ancient Greek Wheat Sheaf Signet Ring rose gold Hand made in England many

Hand made in England many

German philologist Walter Friedrich Otto writes a wonderfully evocative overview of Eurpipdes' play The Bacchae:

wings outstretched

The quality and 3D details are excellent

The snakes feature stylised cartoonish faces (a Victorian specialty) and little articulated ball drops beneath

Ancient Greek Wheat Sheaf Signet Ring rose gold Hand made in England manyDATE: Ancient, c. 3rd Century BC This gold signet ring, remarkably, pre dates the birth of Christ (!!). Dating from 3rd century BC Greece, it bears a wheat sheaf engraving on the face, which I'd say means one of two things: it was either worn as a fertility amulet in reverence of Demeter, the goddess of grain, agriculture, and fertility; or it's from Lucania, the Greek district in Southern Italy, who's emblem was the wheat sheaf, occupied from the mid