Art Institute of Chicago
Ring Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Egyptian
- Date
- Probably Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)
- Medium
- Gold
- Culture
- Egypt
- Department
- Arts of Africa
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Upon death, people who were thought to have lived moral lives were reborn in the afterlife as a form of the god Osiris. This ring is inscribed with the title “Osiris,” followed by the owner’s names and titles, attesting to his faith that he would become one with the god after death.
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- Object type
- AAT300209261
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