finger-ring

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Object Type: finger-ring
Museum number: 1897,0401.360
Description: Bronze finger-ring; Stirrup-shaped of Egyptian type; rectangular bezel engraved with a figure of Bes to front with hands on knees and wearing a crown of feathers; on either side is a uraeus; one shoulder is broken away from the hoop.
Cultures/periods: New Kingdom
Production date: 1550BC-1050BC
Production place: Made in: Egypt
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Turner Bequest Excavations, Enkomi
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Enkomi, tomb 69
Materials: bronze
Technique: engraved
Dimensions: Diameter: 1.20 centimetres (inner); Diameter: 1.50 centimetres (outer); Length: 1 centimetres (bezel); Weight: 1.93 grammes; Width: 0.70 centimetres (bezel)
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Finger Ring / Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum (1217); Jacobsson 1994 / Aegyptiaca from Late Bronze Age Cyprus (No. 312); Kenna 1971 / Catalogue of the Cypriote Seals of the Bronze Age in the British Museum (No. 35); Catling 1964 / Cypriot Bronzework in the Mycenaean World (234-5, No. 2); Murray, Smith and Walters 1900 / Excavations in Cyprus (P46, Pl XII); Crewe 2009 / Enkomi (69.1)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: ancient egyptian deity
Associated names: Representation of: Bes
Acquisition name: From: Turner Bequest Excavations, Enkomi
Funder name: Funded by: Emma Tourner Turner (bequest)
Acquisition date: 1897
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1897,0401.360

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