Finger Ring with Frog (c. 1353–1337 BCE): Art, History and Details

Finger Ring with Frog (c. 1353–1337 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The shank or band of this ring is crescent-shaped and circular in section; its upper sections are covered with heavy gold wire. The oval bezel on a swivel, the metal that holds the stone, takes the form of a scaraboid, or seal amulet in the shape of a scarab. Its sides are encircled by a double row of granules and are surmounted by a delicately molded frog in the round. The underside is incised with a nefer-sign to the right and a wedjat-eye.

Object facts

• Title: Finger Ring with Frog
• Date: c. 1353–1337 BCE
• Culture: Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten (1351–1334 BCE)
• Type: Jewelry
• Technique: gold
• Dimensions: Diameter: 2.3 cm (7/8 in.); Overall: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.)
• Collection: Egypt - New Kingdom
• Department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
• Accession number: 1916.658

A detail from the museum

An exact duplicate of this ring, apart from the inscription, is in the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh.

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade

Further reading listed by the museum

• Kozloff, Arielle P., Betsy Morrell Bryan, Lawrence Michael Berman, and Elisabeth Delange. Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1992.
• Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999

View the collection record

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