An ancient Egyptian blue-green faience ring with a recessed image of the goddess Mut standing in profile with the head of a lioness wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, holding a papyrus stalk scepter.
New Kingdom, 18th - 19th Dynasty,
Ca. 1550 - 1080 BC.
Length: 1 1/2 in (3.9 cm).
Formerly with Brummer Gallery, New York, 1940s; subsequently by descent to an Atlanta, Georgia private collection.