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拍品專文
Only very few seal rings from the Amarna Period survive. For a similar ring in bronze, in the Antikenmuseum, Basle (inv. BSAe 369), cf. Exhibition catalogue, Akhénaton et Néfertiti, Soleil et ombres des pharaons, Geneva, 2008, p. 229, no. 123.
Solid-cast in one piece using the lost-wax process, stirrup rings became popular during the New Kingdom, superseding the swivel-types for sealing purposes, where a blob of clay was applied over the ends of a cord tied around the object to be sealed (a rolled-up papyrus scroll, a box lid, door bolts, etc.); the ring is then impressed into the clay.
In Dominic Montserrat's book on Akhenaten, Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt, London, 2000, mention is made (p. 6) of an Akhenaten seal ring which was given to Rudyard Kipling in 1925 by the novelist and Egyptophile, Henry Rider Haggard. Kipling's thank you note to Haggard reads, "Just a line on my return from town to thank you a hundred times for Akhenaton's Seal (I'm sure he kept it in his library) which you needn't tell me has no duplicate. It won't be lost - ins'h Allah! And it's going into safe and honourable keeping. I don't care so much about Akhenaton's dealings with it (he probably countersigned a lot of tosh of the Social Progress nature before he was busted)."
Solid-cast in one piece using the lost-wax process, stirrup rings became popular during the New Kingdom, superseding the swivel-types for sealing purposes, where a blob of clay was applied over the ends of a cord tied around the object to be sealed (a rolled-up papyrus scroll, a box lid, door bolts, etc.); the ring is then impressed into the clay.
In Dominic Montserrat's book on Akhenaten, Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt, London, 2000, mention is made (p. 6) of an Akhenaten seal ring which was given to Rudyard Kipling in 1925 by the novelist and Egyptophile, Henry Rider Haggard. Kipling's thank you note to Haggard reads, "Just a line on my return from town to thank you a hundred times for Akhenaton's Seal (I'm sure he kept it in his library) which you needn't tell me has no duplicate. It won't be lost - ins'h Allah! And it's going into safe and honourable keeping. I don't care so much about Akhenaton's dealings with it (he probably countersigned a lot of tosh of the Social Progress nature before he was busted)."