In 2001, in the vicinity of Rome, archaeologists were fortunate enough to find an undiluted family tomb from the beginning of the 1st century AD. with two marble sarcophagi inside.
The most emotional find was a gold ring with gem-quality rock crystal.
The face of the young man is skillfully made of gold by a jeweler, and the top is "covered" with a perfectly transparent crystal of rock crystal.
The effect is when the boundaries of the image are blurred and lost in the dark, due to which it seems that a living person is looking at us through the window of the frame.
Archaeologists have found that 18-year-old noble Roman youth Titus Carvilius Gemellius and his mother, noble matron Ebucius Quartus, are buried.
The young man died first - this is evidenced by the inscriptions on the sarcophagus, filled with maternal love and bitterness from the loss of his only son.
In the skeleton of the young man, one of the thigh bones was broken in two places, which makes the circumstances of his death unclear. Blood poisoning from trauma? Maybe a fall from a horse? Examination of the remaining hair revealed a high percentage of arsenic, which may indicate poisoning.
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The inconsolable mother ordered herself such a ring with a portrait of her deceased son - to always remember him.
The mother never parted with the ring even after her death (she died a few years later at the age of 40-45); it was put on her finger when archaeologists opened the burial.
Author: AlexKap2015