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Material : Gold
Acquisition : Gift of Edwards S. Harkness (1926)
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Ancient Egypt
Jewel
Vitrine : 2
Area related
Amarna (Egypte)
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The hieroglyphs on this ring may be read as an ideogram. The two seated figures are probably Akhenaten (left) and Nefertiti (right) as the deities Shu (air) and Tefnut (moisture). They were father and mother of the earth and sky, which are symbolically represented by the earth hieroglyph (below) and by the sun disk flanked by two sacred cobra (above).
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