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LOT 0491

Egyptian Ring with Button Scarab

LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.

1 in. (4.47 grams, 27.51 mm overall, 18.98 mm internal diameter (approximate size British M, USA 6, Europe 12.46, Japan 12)).

Comprising a bronze D-shaped finger ring, the bezel formed by a faience discoid with a radiating geometric stylised rosette pattern on one side and the other featuring a central nefer sign with sun disc above flanked by two maat feathers.

Provenance

Ex London, UK, art market, 1990s.
From a private UK collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. Petrie, W.M.F., Button and Design Scarabs, London, 1925, pl. X, nos. 430 and 432, for discoids with rosette designs.

CONDITION
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LOT 0491

Egyptian Ring with Button Scarab

Sold for (Inc. bp): £124

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