Ring
Gallery Location
Galleries of Africa: Egypt
Medium
Glazed composition (faience)
Geography
Egypt
Date
c. 1550-1069 BC
Period
18th-20th Dynasty, New Kingdom
Dimensions
2 × 1.1 cm
Object number
910.47.86
Field Collector
Charles Trick Currelly
ROM Staff, 1908-1946
Cataloguer
Gayle Gibson
ROM Staff, 1990-2015; ROM Volunteer 2015-Present
Collection
Department
Art & Culture: Ancient Egypt & Nubia
Description
This deep purple faience ring would have been an inexpensive adornment. A well-drawn water-lily blossom has been impressed on the upper side. Such rings are found in graves, often still on the withered hand of a mummy. The unusual purple colouring may have been in imitation of amethyst.
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