- Museum number
- EA54317
- Description
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Gold ear-ring (one of a pair): five hollow, triangular tubes soldered together, with a longer centre tube to fit through the lobe. At the beginning of this extension, a small five-petaled flower has been soldered on, so that it would have rested against the lobe when the ring was worn.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2.65 centimetres (band)
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Thickness: 0.31 centimetres (band)
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Width: 1 centimetres (band)
- Curator's comments
- For the suggestion that such rings, introduced in the 17th dynasty, could be worn with two on each ear, see Eaton-Krauss in Egypt’s Golden Age (exhibition catalogue, Boston, 1982): 229.
Pair with 1917,1015.3
Bibliography:
'Egyptian Treasures' [exhibition catalogue] (Shanghai, 1999), 270-271 No 84;
'Temples and Tombs' [exhibition catalogue] (American Federation of Arts, 2006), 85, cat no. 43.
Pair with 1917,1015.4
Bibliography:
'Egyptian Treasures' [exhibition catalogue] (Shanghai, 1999), 270-271 No 84;
'Temples and Tombs' [exhibition catalogue] (American Federation of Arts, 2006), 85, cat no. 43.
- Location
- On display (G61/dc4/sB)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1982 Feb-May, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Egypt's Golden Age
1982 Jul-Sep, Houston, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Egypt's Golden Age
1982/3 Oct-Jan, Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, Egypt's Golden Age
1986 Jun-Oct, Carmarthen Museum, A son of Luxor's Sands
1989 1 Nov-1990 31 Dec, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpar, National Museum of Malaysia, Treasures from the Graves
2006 7 Sept-26 Nov, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Temples & Tombs
2006 21 Dec-2007 18 Mar, Jackonsville, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Temples & Tombs
2007 15 Apr-8 Jul, Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Temples & Tombs
2007 16 Nov-2008 10 Feb, New Mexico, Albuquerque Museum, Temples & Tombs
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA54317
- Registration number
- 1917,1015.3
