Ancient Roman Women S Jewelry

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.

Ancient roman women s jewelry.

Anklets were also sported though not by respectable matrons. 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. 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.

Many rich roman women owned expensive jewellery. Roman women would curate large collections of jewelry often in a set. It was common for them to wear more jewels than the men. Roman style earrings bronze snake amulet earrings with lapis lazuli pearl dangle earrings ancient jewelry special charm earrings women romanjewelryreplicas 5 out of 5 stars 7 17 66 free shipping.

Ancient roman jewelry for women. Amongst the wealthy in a busy provincial town like cirencester there must have been. While roman women would wear a great variety of jewelry the man used to wear at least one ring. Gold ring with onyx intaglio from late 2nd early 3rd century a d.

They wore precious stones such as opals emeralds diamonds topaz and pearls set as earrings bracelets rings brooches necklaces and diadems.