Ring with Cartouche-Shaped Bezel

Description This example of turquoise-colored faience is chipped and has incrustations in the deeply cut, crisp hieroglyphs which read "May your house flourish, may your lifetime be jubilant under the gifts of Amun of Karnak (and) a high old age."

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
4/20/1977	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

• Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.
• Secret Signs: Egyptian Writing. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2003-2004.
• Faience: The Colors of the Heavens. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2003-2004.

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [obtained in Luxor]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1913