finger-ring
- Museum number
- EA59850
- Description
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Glazed composition finger-ring: this ring is made from bright blue glazed composition in the shape of an openwork wedding band in which a column of five figures of the god Bes stands on each other's heads. As usual, he is depicted full-faced with very leonine features, naked and dwarf-like with bandy legs; in one instance the legs are most unexpectedly in profile. Only two of the figures wear his customary tall plumes; little more than a 'modius' is worn by the three other figures.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2.48 centimetres
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Width: 1.16 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Jewelry elements of openwork glazed composition in this particular shade of blue, are characteristic of the Third Intermediate Period and provide a splendid illustration of the Egyptian craftsman's skill in working this extremely attractive material.
Bibliography:
'Egyptian Treasures' [exhibition catalogue] (Shanghai, 1999), 106-107 No 28.
Published: Andrews, Amulets of Ancient Egypt (1994): fig.45
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1930
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA59850
- Registration number
- 1930,0712.20
