Victorian Medusa Intaglio Signet Ring Size:5 with a gorgeous antique patina

with a gorgeous antique patina

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The body of the fob is a coiled snake

applied ropework

Inner measurements: 5

Victorian Medusa Intaglio Signet Ring Size:5 with a gorgeous antique patinaDATE: Victorian, 1868 A spectacular sardonyx intaglio signet ring carved with the hideous face of Medusa. With snakes for hair, and a face that would turn any who gazed upon it to stone, Medusa is the best known of the three monstrous Gorgon sisters. The earliest known reference to the Gorgons is found in Hesiod's Theogony, but it was Ovid who really fleshed out the story in the Metamorphoses, where he describes Medusa in her youth: "Medusa once had