Ancient roman jewelry for women.
Ancient roman women s jewelry.
Roman women preferred to wear necklaces earrings and a number of armlets.
Another accomplishment of this ancient roman period was the creation of the coin rings which carried the portrait of the ruling emperor or had the engraving of roman insignia on it.
It was fashionable for ladies to wear all of the following at the same time.
It was common for them to wear more jewels than the men.
Gold ring with onyx intaglio from late 2nd early 3rd century a d.
While roman women would wear a great variety of jewelry the man used to wear at least one ring.
Roman women would curate large collections of jewelry often in a set.
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Many rich roman women owned expensive jewellery.
They wore precious stones such as opals emeralds diamonds topaz and pearls set as earrings bracelets rings brooches necklaces and diadems.
Various types of jewelry were worn by different genders and social classes in rome and were used both for aesthetic purposes and to communicate social messages of status and wealth.
The rings were commonly made of gold or electrum and sometimes their stone shows an intaglio that was used to seal important documents with hot wax.
Anklets were also sported though not by respectable matrons.