signet-ring;
bezel
- Museum number
- 1880.3706.b
- Description
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Cast, brass-washed copper alloy signet-ring with a flat, oval bezel, that curves at either end to merge with the shank, of which only a short section remains. The worn engraved design shows a standing female figure, nude to the waist, her right arm bent upwards at the elbow. She wears a dhoti with the folds rendered by parallel incised lines.
- Production date
- 1stC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 13.30 millimetres (bezel)
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Thickness: 1.50 millimetres (shank)
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Width: 10.70 millimetres (bezel)
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Width: 4.90 millimetres (shank)
- Curator's comments
- For better preserved depictions of the same subject, see 1880.3702.k-m, IOLC.7554,-7555. For identification of the group 1880.3706 with IM.Metal.145, see 1880.3706.a. For documentation of IM.Metal.141, see 1880.3702.a.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Acquisition notes
- Collected from the site of Begram, 1834-8 (MSS Eur. E161/VII, ff.31-3).
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1880.3706.b
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: IM.Metal.145 (British Museum no.: India Museum collection)