Lost Owl Janus Intaglio Signet Ring mid-century arms outstretched with a bundle

arms outstretched with a bundle of serpents clutched in one hand and an upturned cornucopia spilling out gold coins in the other

Some light wear consistent with age

black appearance

and a powder-blue enamelled horseshoe underneath

Lost Owl Janus Intaglio Signet Ring mid-century arms outstretched with a bundleAn intaglio signet ring by Lost Owl. The Roman god Janus is rendered in bloodstone, looking forwards and back. Janus is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having a double sided head. Januss religious history is notably complex and obscure. His earliest sphere of influence was the doorway itself (ianua meaning door in Latin), but he gradually came to embody