Ring, "The Holy Prophet Jonah"

Characteristics:

Material: 925 silver, gilding 999
Sr.ves: 8 c.
Ring Size: 20.5 mm.
Technique: Miniature relief, casting, blackening. Handmade.

Security ring with the image of St. Jonah made in the old traditional form, known since ancient times. The most widely used such rings received in the Middle Ages, especially in the Orthodox Byzantine Empire. They began to depict saints, to write prayers, and various dedications and requests for protection and patronage. Of course, this ring was not only expensive jewelry, but also a sacred relic, and it was not customary to wear all the time: the ring is always removed when doing any evil work.
The image of Christ on the security rings practically does not occur. It is replaced by a symbolic pre-images, one of which is the prophet Jonah, whom the Lord Himself compares himself in a conversation with the scribes and Pharisees who demanded a sign from Him. As Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights, - said he unto them, foretold of His sufferings on the Cross, the descent into hell and resurrection (Matthew 12, 40). .