Ring with bezel in the form of a bust of Harpokrates or Dionysus

Ptolemaic or Roman Period

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 137

On this ring appears the bust of a god wearing a hemhem crown and with long locks or a possibly a nemes.The god represented must be a male and Harpokrates or Dionysus have been suggested.

The bust was hammered and chased, rather than cast, out of gold and then soldered at an angle to the flat bezel of this ring. Rings of this form are most characteristic of Egypt..

Ring with bezel in the form of a bust of Harpokrates or Dionysus, gold

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Left to right: Coiled Wire Ring (24.2.29); Cast Ring with Bust of Serapis (26.7.832); Cast Ring with Bust of Isis (26.7.833); Cast Ring with Bust of Serapis (49.159.1); Coiled Wire Ring (10.130.1512)