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Source Description
A fragile openwork ring made of faience with designs in superimposed registers of plaques. The god Horus, represented as a hawk with disk on head, one wing up, one down, foot forward, alternates with heads of the cow-eared goddess Hathor. In all but one plaque she wears a low crown. In one she wears the characteristic heavy wig with spiral curls.
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Document identity
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1457
label
Ring with Horus and Hathor
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Source metadata
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1457
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title
Ring with Horus and Hathor
description
A fragile openwork ring made of faience with designs in superimposed registers of plaques. The god Horus, represented as a hawk with disk on head, one wing up, one down, foot forward, alternates with heads of the cow-eared goddess Hathor. In all but one plaque she wears a low crown. In one she wears the characteristic heavy wig with spiral curls.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
10th-8th century BC
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
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Ceramics
rings
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import
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cm
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1.4
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2.2
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1.5
dimensionsRaw
H: 9/16 x W: 7/8 x Outer Diam: 9/16 in. (1.42 x 2.2 x 1.5 cm)
Source extras
dynasty
21st-22nd Dynasty
med
faience with blue glaze
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6182
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EGY
JWL
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2513
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