Small find
bead
ø 3.2cm
1.5cm
gold, jasper
Gold ring with two-sided decoration incised in square-cut green jasper. On one side prenomens of Hatshepsut (on the left) and Thutmose III (on the right) can be seen, on the other one the inscription is preserved: "The First Prophet of Horus of Nekhen, Tjeni,"
Provenance unknown.
Purchased from Mohammed Mohassib, gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1915.
Museum object
Bibliography:
- Roehrig, Catharine H., Dreyfus, Renée, Keller, Cathleen A., Hatshepsut. From Queen to Pharaoh, New Haven, London 2005, 100, no. 50a
- Hayes, William C., The Scepter of Egypt: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom, Cambridge, Mass. 1959, 104