A #Roman rock crystal ring decorated with a crescent and stars inlaid with gold foil - it looks like an emoji , but for the Romans this wasn’t just decoration. The motif was associated with death: crescent and stars were symbols for eternity and afterlife.
Rock crystal was valued for its transparency, it was considered it to be permanently frozen water. It was also believed to possess healing and protective properties.

Found in a woman's burial in Nijmegen, dating 1st c. AD.