3rd-5th century AD. A group of two bronze finger rings each with flat-section hoop and ellipsoid plaque, horizontal median line and two lines of enigmatic Greek-script text, probably the initial letters of a personal name or a religious invocation: on the first ring the letter lambda-chi-rho (???) and the letters mu-omega (??); on the second ring the letters omega-lambda-omega (???) and the letters alfa-iota-omega-ni (????"). See Ruseva-Slokoska, L., Roman Jewellery, Sofia, 1991, item 180, for type.2.29 grams total, 17-18mm (3/4"). From a Dutch private collection; formerly in a European collection, acquired before 1980. The rings can have been used as signets of some ecclesiastic in some provinces of the Eastern Roman Balkans. One inscription can be interpreted as a diminutive of ???? ?????, = of all Saints. [2, No Reserve]