Scarab with Worshiper and Winged Deity Set in a Gold Swivel Ring

Scarab: 7th-5th century BCE; Hoop: Modern (EZ IIC)

1.2 cm 1.1 cm 1.7 cm

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This ring with a gold hoop of twisted wire, typically Egyptian but lacking the usual taper, has a swiveling scarab bezel rather crudely carved out of dark green stone. Carved into the back is a short-skirted figure with a disk over the head paying homage to the goddess Isis wi...

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Charles Newton-Robinson, London, by 1909 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Newton-Robinson Sale, Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, June 22, 1909, lot 2; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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