Finger Ring

1973.1.60b

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Finger ring with bezel in the form of a cartouche inscribed with the throne name of King Thutmose III, Menkheperra (Lasting is the Manifestation of Ra). Wellcome Historical Medical Museum accession number 31967? Purchased for the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at Sotheby's, London, 16 December 1924 (Bethell collection), Lot 358; previously in the Tyssen-Amherst collection, sold at Sotheby's, London, 17 June 1921 as part of a group of faience ring fragments from Petrie's 1891-92 excavations at Tell el-Amarna (lots 883-886).