Ring of Hatnefer

Title: Ring of Hatnefer

Period: New Kingdom

Dynasty: Dynasty 18, early

Reign: reign of Thutmose II–Early Joint reign

Date: ca. 1492–1473 B.C.

Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Hatnefer and Ramose (below TT 71), Mummy of Hatnefer, little finger left hand, MMA excavations, 1935–36

Medium: Gold, glazed steatite

Dimensions: Ring: H. 2.1 cm (13/16 in.); W. 2.9 cm (1 1/8 in.); Cowroid: L. 2.1 cm (13/16 in.); W. (with bezel) 2.4 cm (15/16 in.); Th. (with bezel) 0.7 cm (1/4 in.)

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1936

Accession Number: 36.3.3

Excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1935–1936. Acquired by the Museum in the division of finds, 1936.

Hayes, William C. 1959. Scepter of Egypt II: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom (1675-1080 B.C.). Cambridge, Mass.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 185, fig. 102; p. 187.

Roehrig, Catharine H. 2002. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, new ser., vol. 60, no. 1 (Summer), New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 38, fig. 51.

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