archaicwonder: Roman Chalcedony Ringstone, c. 1st Century BC/AD Engraved with Venus before an aedicu
archaicwonder: Roman Chalcedony Ringstone, c. 1st Century BC/AD Engraved with Venus before an aedicula (small shrine), the goddess with a mantle wrapped around her hips and legs, leaving her upper torso bare, holding a dove by the wings, the aedicula atop a tall garlanded pedestal, enclosing a figure of Priapus (fertility god), a draped girl in between offering a bowl to the goddess, a tree arching over the scene from the left, on a groundline. -- source link