Ring with a Scarab Bezel

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Second Intermediate Period, Dynasty 15 (about 1650–1550 BCE)

Egyptian

Status: On View, Gallery 50
Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Ring with a Scarab Bezel
Place: Egypt (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1985 BCE–1550 BCE
Medium: Gold and green jasper
Dimensions: 1.2 × 2.5 × 2.3 cm (1/2 × 1 × 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson
Reference Number: 1892.25
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Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1923), 111 (ill.), 140n6.

Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.

Émile Brugsch (1842-1930), Bulaq Museum and Egyptian Antiquities Service, Cairo; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1892; price reimbursed by Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson, 1892.

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