Bidspirit auction | RARE EGYPTIAN BRONZE RING WITH

RARE EGYPTIAN BRONZE RING WITH CROWNED FALCON - New Kingdom, Ca. 1550 - 1069 BC. A bronze ring with a rounded hoop and an elongated oval bezel engraved with the Horus falcon wearing the Double Crown, with detailed wing feathers and facial markings. A rearing uraeus wearing the White Crown stands before him, with a second cobra looped around a sun disc and an ankh sign behind. Below are two horizontal lines above a basket hieroglyph, forming the epithet neb tawy, ”Lord of the Two Lands”. For similar see: Christie's, Live Auction 20677, Antiquities, 12 April 2022, Lot 15. Size: D:20.98mm / US: 11 3/8 / UK: W 1/2; Weight: 13g Provenance: Private London collection; previously acquired on the Belgian art market during the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.