Full title: A 2,000 year old hololith ring carved entirely from a single massive sapphire. It is believed to have belonged to the infamous Roman Emperor Caligula, with the engraving depicting his fourth wife, Caesonia. The gold band was added in the Middle Ages to resize it.
A 2,000 year old hololith ring carved entirely from a single massive sapphire. It is believed to have belonged to the infamous Roman Emperor Caligula, with the engraving depicting his fourth wife, Ca…
17 Comments
Steve@startrek.website · 21 pts · 26d
How
Promethiel@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 26d
Tiny chisel. Big patience. Based craftsman.
Steve@startrek.website · 25 pts · 26d
This was probably someones entire life.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 26d
DaveyRocket@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 22d
It’s crazy how clutch this guy is. What a 10/10 show.
iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 26d
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 26d
Sugar, sodium citrate, blue food dye...
cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 26d
Thats so cool, i wonder how it plays with candle/lantern/sun lights
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 26d
+1 to maximum power charges
UniversalBasicJustice@quokk.au · 3 pts · 26d
And Rampage (cuz Caligula)
pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 26d
Just one?
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 26d
That's a handsome lady right there...
altphoto@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 26d
I'm also going to wait until my wife is an elder lady to engrave her bust. I mean on a ring. Bust on a ring, on hers. Ah you know what I'm trying to say.
AgentSeven@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 26d
"Ol' fatfingers" Caligula they called him.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 26d
Imagine your fingers so fat, when you make a ring for yourself, the next guy wearing it needs to put a whole ass extra ring in it just so it doesn't slip away.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 26d
I wonder what it would cost to commission another. With manufactured sapphire it would probably be cheaper than Caligula's.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 26d
That's his wife? I thought that was supposed to be a skeleton.
theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 26d
She is a skeleton now, to be fair