Ca. 100-200 AD.A red stone intaglio engraved with a central tropaion, the war trophy flanked by two kneeling figures of captives. The intaglio is set in a beautiful gold finger ring composed of a tapering hoop, slightly rounded on the outside and flat inside. Tropaion was a victory monument built by ancient Greeks and Romans after the battle from the captured armour and weapons of the enemy from the battlefield. It would be a votive offering to a deity in thanksgiving for the victory. Only the winning party had the right to build a tropaion; in the event of a seemingly inconclusive result, both sides set up a tropaion.Size: D: 15.8mm / US: 5 1/8 / UK: K; 6.19gProvenance: Private London collector, acquired on the Austrian Art market; formerly in an old USA collection, formed since the 1970s.