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LOT 0043
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.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
From the family collection of Mr S.A., Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection since the late 1990s.
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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