Ca. 100-300 AD A cameo finely carved from sardonyx. The draped female visage facing right. The bust with sensitively rendered delicate features including an aquiline eye, an arched brow, full lips, elegant contours of her cheeks, and a long neck with helmfrisur coiffure. Set in the beaded border of a possibly later gold ring of a round, carinated hoop flaring towards shoulders with pelta-shaped openings. The item has undergone X-ray fluorescence analysis to confirm the metallurgical content suggesting its ancient origin and lack of modern trace elements.Size: D: 19.41mm / US: 9 1/2 / UK: S 3/4; 12.64gProvenance: Private UK collection; from an old Oxford collection formed in the 1990s.