Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Egypt

 

Collected by Henry Balfour

Given to the Museum in 1914

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Ring, Egypt

This blue glazed finger ring is from ancient Egypt where ring-wearing is known to have been practised from the third millennium BC. It has been decorated with an eye of Horus design.

View database record 1914.11.19