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Near Eastern, Anatolian
Bronze Age
about 2400 B.C.

Medium/Technique Gold
Credit Line Centennial purchase with funds donated by Landon T. Clay
Accession Number68.132
ClassificationsJewelry / AdornmentRings

DescriptionRing, flat sheet gold, ends drawn out to spirals. These ornaments appear to have formed the burial jewelry of a high-born woman, not unlike the gold treasures found by Heinrich Schliemann at Troy in 1878. Certain Egyptian motifs suggest commerce and sea ties between Egypt and coastal Asia Minor in the mid-third millennium BC.
Provenance1968, sold by George Zacos (dealer), Basel, Switzerland, to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 10, 1968)