Gold scaraboid ring

Gold scaraboid ring

Description:

Engraved with a ram-headed sphinx and ankh-sign; irregularly cross-hatched exergue; linear border.


Diam.: 1 in. (2.5 cm)

Period:

Classical

Date:

499 - 400 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

References:

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.4143