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LOT 0043

Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,550

EGYPTIAN BRONZE RING WITH HIEROGLYPHS
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 in. (9.62 grams, 24.22 mm overall, 18.25 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O, USA 7, Europe 14.98, Japan 14)).

Ellipsoid bezel with a group of incuse hieroglyphs to the plaque naming Amun-Re.

PROVENANCE:
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
From the family collection of Mr S.A., Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection since the late 1990s.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Petrie, W.M.F., Objects of Daily Use, Warminster, 1972, pl. XIII, no. 133, for a vertical oval bezel with a similar hieroglyphic inscription.

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