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Ring-Shaped Object | musefully
Ring-Shaped Object, 1100-256 B.C.E.. Bronze, inlaid with silver, 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alastair B. Martin, the Guennol Collection, 77.54.2a-b. Creative Commons-BY.
This elaborately inlaid decorative ring most likely adorned the rim of a lacquered vessel. The core materials of the vessel, probably wood, fabric, or woven basketry, are all highly perishable, and the vessel would have disintegrated over the centuries, leaving only the surviving ring.