Mold for a ring bezel

Place of OriginEgypt, Akhetaten (modern Tell el-Amarna)

Date2nd Millennium BCE

Dimensions1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)

Mediumclay

ClassificationUtilitarian Objects

Credit LineGift of the Egypt Exploration Society

Object number

1925.696

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Label TextThis clay mold for a ring bezel was excavated in 1922 by the Egypt Exploration Society at Akhetaten (modern Amarna), the short-lived capital of Pharaoh Akhenaten. It formed part of a group of molds used in the production of small personal ornaments. The piece was distributed to the Toledo Museum of Art that year through the EES’s official division of finds.