Roman Disk Pendant

This beautiful reproduction pendent is a copy of a Roman design dating from circa late 4th to 3rd centuries B.C. The original pendent was made from gold with a cabochon garnet centrally set within a shield-like convexity. 

A highly skilled craftsman would have created the disk with the shield-like shape and then added the delicate filigree rope work and other filigree patterns surrounding the centre stone. A simple bezel type setting held the garnet in place.

Pendant measures 4cm on a 52cm chain.