Location

107 Egyptian

Fun Fact

An exact duplicate of this ring, apart from the inscription, is in the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh.

Description

The shank or band of this ring is crescent-shaped and circular in section; its upper sections are covered with heavy gold wire. The oval bezel on a swivel, the metal that holds the stone, takes the form of a scaraboid, or seal amulet in the shape of a scarab. Its sides are encircled by a double row of granules and are surmounted by a delicately molded frog in the round. The underside is incised with a nefer-sign to the right and a wedjat-eye.

Provenance

-1916

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade (1857–1926 and 1857–1917), gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1916-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Kozloff, Arielle P., Betsy Morrell Bryan, Lawrence Michael Berman, and Elisabeth Delange. Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1992. no. 131

Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced: p. 285; Mentioned: p. 285-286

Exhibition history

Egypt: Materials and Methods. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 14, 1962-January 21, 1963).

Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 1-September 27, 1992); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (October 24, 1992-January 31, 1993); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (March 2-May 31, 1993).

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Finger Ring with Frog

Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten

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