Ring with bezel in the form of a bust of Harpokrates or Dionysus

Ring with bezel in the form of a bust of Harpokrates or Dionysus

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

On this ring appears the bust of a god wearing a hemhem crown and with long locks or a possibly a nemes.The god represented must be a male and Harpokrates or Dionysus have been suggested. The bust was hammered and chased, rather than cast, out of gold and then soldered at an angle to the flat bezel of this ring. Rings of this form are most characteristic of Egypt..

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ring with bezel in the form of a bust of Harpokrates or DionysusRing with bezel in the form of a bust of Harpokrates or DionysusRing with bezel in the form of a bust of Harpokrates or DionysusRing with bezel in the form of a bust of Harpokrates or DionysusRing with bezel in the form of a bust of Harpokrates or Dionysus

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.