AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE RING
拍品 211

AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE RING

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.

已結束2012年10月25日

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GBP 562

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE RING
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
The solid hoop flat on the interior, slightly rounded on the exterior, expanding and flaring to the broad oval bezel, engraved with a female portrait bust in profile to the left, her hair pulled back and tied in a chignon
Bezel 1¼ in. (3.2 cm.) wide; ring size P

Private collection, Germany; acquired 1960-1981, and thence by descent to the present owner.

專家說明

For a similar bronze ring with female portrait head cf. G. M. Bernheimer, Ancient Gems from the Borowski Collection, 2007, p. 76, no. GF-26. In the above ring the absence of a diadem would suggest that a private individual is depicted rather than a royal portrait.