Roman Numerals Incorporate Commemoration Into Jewelry Design
People like to commemorate the events of their life with personalized jewelry, a reminder set in stone or precious metal of the meaning these events held for them. It’s not that people will ever forget these life-changing events, it’s just nice to have a small reminder, in the form of an artistic adornment. Pendants, rings, and bracelets can be marked with the dates of these events. In this way, people assign this commemorative role to the piece: this concretes the connection between the physical piece of jewelry and the memory of the event. This can be done by engraving the date in letters and numbers, but jewelry with dates in Roman numerals is becoming popular as a way of showing the date as part of the piece’s design, further solidifying the relationship between commemorative adornment and event commemorated.