Early 2nd century AD. A silver ring with D-section hoop with expanding arms and shoulders, bezel with oval recess set with an octagonal carnelian gemstone inscribed in two lines in Greek 'EP / MOY' (of Ermos"). Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, items 290-291, for type. 9.02 grams, 23.01mm overall, 17.28mm internal diameter (approximate size British K, A 5 1/4, Europe 9.95, Japan 9) (1"). From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister; from her collection formed 1960s-1990s. In Greek mythology, Hérmos was a deity who inhabited the homonymo river (the present Gediz) located in the ancient region of Lidia (present-day Turkey"). Ermos succeeded Hérmos as amon Greek name, ed here on a signet ring.