Ring stone - Red jasper - Faustulus with She-wolf and Twins

Ring stone engraved with Faustulus with She-wolf and Twins.
Red jasper. Height 1,6 cm.
He is standing right, an animal skin on the back, leaning on his stick. Before him, the Roman She-wolf right suckling Romulus and Remus. In the background, vine stock with five bunches of grapes.
1st century B.C. Roman Republic.
Intact.

According to Roman mythology, Faustulus was a shepherd and garded flocks of Amulius, usurper king of Alba Longa, when he took in the twins Romulus and Remus, after they were suckled by a she-wolf . He raised them with his wife Acca Laurentia. These twins, great-nephews of Amulius, were the children of Rhea Silvia and the god Mars (as claimed by their mother, herself the daughter of the deposed king: Numitor).