Ring stone engraved with Faustulus, with she-wolf and twins
Roman Republic – 1st century BC – Red jasper – Height: 1.6 cm – Intact.

Faustulus is standing to the right, an animal skin on his back, leaning on his stick.
Before him, the she-wolf is suckling Romulus and Remus. In the background, vine stock with five bunches of grapes.

According to Roman mythology, Faustulus was a shepherd who guarded flocks belonging to Amulius, usurper king of Alba Longa. Amulius took the twins Romulus and Remus and threw them into the river Tiber. They were found and then suckled by a she-wolf. Faustulus raised them with his wife Acca Larentia.
The twins, who were Amulius’s great-nephews, were the children of Rhea Silvia and the god Mars (as claimed by their mother, herself the daughter of the deposed king Numitor).