NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, REIGN OF AMENHOTEP III, 1391-1353 B.C.

Edgar James Banks was a distinguished archaeologist, writer and public official. He was a professor of Oriental languages and archaeology at Toledo University in 1909 and held numerous other teaching positions throughout his career. Banks was also an active archaeologist. In 1899, he organized an expedition to excavate at Ur, but was denied permission by the Sultan. He successfully dug in the Babylonian city of Bismya in 1903, where he discovered an important white statue of King David "the oldest statue in the world" (see p. 74 in "Banks, Edgar James" in The International Who's Who in the World, 1912).

For a ring with the same iconography on the cartouche, see no. 45k, pp. 59-60 in C. Andrews, Ancient Egyptian Jewelry.