finger-ring
- Museum number
- 136840
- Description
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Gold finger-ring; penannular.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.80 centimetres
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Weight: 1.90 grammes
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Thickness: 0.40 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Found in 1977,0226.1 (BM.136799).
The small size of this grooved penannular finger ring suggests that it was either made for a child or that it may have been worn between the first and the second joints as is depicted in the statue of Yasuduq'il Far, King of Awsan (see Simpson StJ 2002a, cat. 34). This custom is shown on a number of funerary sculptures from Palmyra and may have been practised by women in Roman Syria (Tanabe 1986a, 360, 373, 390, pls 329, 342, 359).
duplicate of 136837
see 136799
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Bowers catalogue entry
Finger ring
Gold
Possibly from the Wadi Bayhan
Diameter 1.8 cm, thickness 0.4 cm; 1.9 g weight
ANE 1977-2-26,42 = 136840
Purchased from Nicholas Wright; a previous owner is said to have been the Emir of Bayhan
The small size of this grooved penannular finger ring suggests that it was either made for a child or that it may have been worn between the first and the second joints, as is depicted in the statue of Yasduqil Far, King of Awsan. This custom is shown on a number of funerary sculptures from Palmyra and may have been practised by women in Roman Syria.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2004-2005 17 Oct-13 Mar, California, Bowers Museum, 'Queen of Sheba: Legend and Reality'
2002 5 Jun-13 Oct, BM, 'Queen of Sheba: Treasures from ancient Yemen' first exhibition of.
- Condition
- Fair.
- Acquisition date
- 1977
- Acquisition notes
- Reputedly from the collection of the Sheikh of Baihan.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 136840
- Registration number
- 1977,0226.42
