Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry

Ring in the Form of a Coiled Serpent Ptolemaic PeriodEgypt

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Description

Provenance: Culture Greek Caption: Greek. Ring in the Form of a Coiled Serpent, 3rd century B.C.E.. Gold, glass, 3/4 × 1 3/4 in. (1.9 × 4.4 cm) mount: 1 3/4 × 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (4.4 × 1.9 × 6.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.785E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.

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Materials GoldGemstone

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.785E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 117376 tier-2
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