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Ring with a Scarab Bezel
Ancient Egyptian · Second Intermediate Period, Dynasty 15 (about 1650–1550 BCE)
Provenance
Ownership history
- Émile Brugsch (1842-1930), Bulaq Museum and Egyptian Antiquities Service, Cairo; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1892; price reimbursed by Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson, 1892.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.
Literature
Published references
- Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1923), 111 (ill.), 140n6.
- Emily Teeter, <a href="https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593213/73"><em>“Cat. 67 Ring with a Scarab Bezel,”</em></a> in Ancient Egyptian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago by Emily Teeter and Ashley F. Arico, ed. Ashley F. Arico (Art Institute of Chicago, 2025).
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