FOUR EARLY BYZANTINE INSCRIBED RINGS FROM ANTIOCH-ON-THE-ORONTES WITH AN APPENDIX ON THREE OTHER INSTRUMENTA
FOUR EARLY BYZANTINE INSCRIBED RINGS FROM ANTIOCH-ON-THE-ORONTES WITH AN APPENDIX ON THREE OTHER INSTRUMENTA

Summary/Abstract: In this brief article we present a collection of four inscribed rings curated in the Archaeological Museum of Hatay in southeastern Turkey, probably coming from ancient Antioch-on-the-Orontes. These bronze rings belong respectively to an unknown person, to a person called Epiphanius, to a further Epiphanius and to a possible Sergius. The chronology of these unpublished rings is not easily determined; nevertheless, by form and type of inscription etc. they can generally be attributed to the Early Byzantine period, from the sixth century AD onwards. At the end of this paper three further bronze trinkets from the same museum are presented. The first one is an uninscribed finger ring, the second one is a pendant with an inscription and the last one is another ring, with a probable early Arabic-Islamic inscription.

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