Amisos Bronze — Ares & the Sheathed Sword unique ancient jewelry Looking for a different example

Looking for a different example

Struck in the final years of the Roman Republic

As both artifact and adornment

Byzantion controlled one of antiquity’s most important maritime passages

Amisos Bronze — Ares & the Sheathed Sword unique ancient jewelry Looking for a different exampleStruck in Amisos in the Pontic Kingdom between 10085 BC, this substantial bronze bears the helmeted head of Ares, god of war, facing right in a crested helmet, while the reverse presents a sword resting firmly within its sheath beside the civic inscription AMI OY. The message is deliberate and restrained: strength present, but governed. Hand set in a sterling silver frame and intentionally crafted without a bail, this piece is designed not as ornament