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Gold ring

Gold ring
© BA Antiquities Museum/C. Gerigk

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Gold ring

Category:
Personal equipment, jewelry, finger rings
Date:
Graeco-Roman Period, Ptolemaic Period, 1st cent. BCE–1st cent. CE
Provenance:
Lower Egypt, Alexandria, Eastern Harbor (Excavations of 1998)
Material(s):
Non-organic material, metal, gold
Diameter:
2.95 cm;
Thickness:
0.7 cm;
Weight:
18.9 gr
Hall:
Submerged Antiquities, showcase M1



The information given here is subject to modification/update as a result of ongoing research.

References
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  • Jürgen Bischoff, 2000 ans sous les mers: Les découvertes de Franck Goddio en Egypte, photographs by Christoph Gerigk (Gottingen: Steidl, 2016): 88.
  • Franck Goddio and André Bernand, Sunken Egypt: Alexandria (London: Periplus, 2004): 104.
  • Laura Foreman, Cleopatra’s Palace (Del Mar, Calif.: Discovery Books, 1999): 62, 201.
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