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| Keywords: Egyptian - Finger Ring with a Frog - Walters 421470 - Reverse.jpg This finger ring displays the small figure of a frog squatting on top of the bezel The frog is well carved with incised details The stylized head of Hathor is incised on the bottom of the bezel The gold lining is probably modern The image of a frog symbolizes fecundity and fertility and rings with frog figures were worn by women particularly during the New Kingdom between 1550 1292 BC New Kingdom carnelian gold lining cm 2 1 1 79 0 48 ; Bezel cm 0 17 ; Inner Diam cm 0 83 ; Outer Diam cm 1 34 accession number 42 1470 32465 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Jewelry - Ancient to Modern The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979-1980 Objects of Adornment Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery Baltimore Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum New York; Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk; Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh; San Antonio Museum of Art San Antonio; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Honolulu Academy of Arts Honolulu; New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans; Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota 1984-1987 Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum and the Zucker Family Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1987 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian finger rings in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
