TAA i.1.256.ff.3

Caption
Object card of group of five finger rings
Creator
Howard Carter
Room
Burial chamber
Object(s) referenced (by Carter number)
256.ff
Material
Card
Pencil
Measurements
12.5 cm x 20.7 cm (h x w)
Season
4th Season (1925–1926)
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© Griffith Institute,

University of Oxford

Transcription

256, FF. (3)

 

NAT. SIZE

 

(4)

[ 𓂀 ]   

2.6 

1.75

 

Double ring of green translucent calcedony.

The king before the god Min on bezel.

Max. diam. of loop from top of bezel 3.1.

 

(5)

[ 𓂀 ]   

green felspar       

red glass   

gold wire   

gold         

lapis lazuli glass

             

A complex finger ring having bezel in the form of the sacred lunar <and solar> barque 

in which is a scarab (lapis lazuli) bearing the atef crown <of gold> with ureaisic on either 

side. Upon prow the barque <of gold> with lunar-disc; at stean/<m> the horussic hawk

with open protective wings and solar disk on head - inlaid with

carneleansic, green felspar and lapis lazuli.

The loop of the ring of three stalks of papyrus flower and (2) buds.

 

On the inner surface (under bezel) engraved upon the gold the

following legend: [ 𓂀 ]   

Thoth with lunar disk on head & ankh in 

hand