Description: A superb roman bracelet with the shape of a twisted snake with sinuously coiled tail and S shaped head. The central part of the coil is smooth, but near the extremities there are some incisions reproducing the scales render the skin of the serpent. In jewelry intended for women, snake motifs were very popular from the Hellenistic period to the beginning of the Roman Empire.A very similar example can be found at Dionysus Herculaneum National Museum of Naples. Rome. 1st-2nd Century A.C.