The poor man's seal was a simple copper or silver ring; the ring of the rich man was a more or less elaborate jewel covered with chasing and relief work.

The bezel was movable, and turned upon a pivot.

It was frequently set with some kind of stone engraved with the owner's emblem or device; as, for example, a scorpion (fig.

296), a lion, a hawk, or a cynocephalous ape.

As in the eyes of her husband his ring was the one essential ornament, so was her necklace in the estimation of the Egyptian lady.