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An Egyptian turquoise glazed faience ring with aegis of Nephthys image 1
An Egyptian turquoise glazed faience ring with aegis of Nephthys image 2
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An Egyptian turquoise glazed faience ring with aegis of Nephthys

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6 July 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian turquoise glazed faience ring with aegis of Nephthys
Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, circa 946-735 B.C.
3.1cm high, 2.50cm diam.

Footnotes

Provenance:
E. Leu collection, Zurich, formed 1950s-1960s.
with Asian and Egyptian Art, Dr Robert Bigler, Zurich.
Arnold Meijer collection, the Netherlands, acquired from the above November 2004.
The inside of the shank bears an old label with inventory number 264.

Published:
C.A.R. Andrews and J. van Dijk, Objects for Eternity, Egyptian Antiquities from the W. Arnold Meijer Collection, Mainz, 2006, p. 111, no. 2.24.

Exhibited:
APM, Archaeological Museum of the University of Amsterdam, 17 November 2006-25 March 2007.

Nephthys, identified by the hieroglyph for her name on her head, is seldom found on these rings: only one published example is known, in the Cleveland Museum of Art (L.M. Berman (ed.), Catalogue of Egyptian Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999, no. 216).

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