Because this ring bears a cartouche of King Khufu of Dynasty IV, known later to the Greeks as Cheops, it was once world famous as the actual signet ring of the builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza. The inscription, however, shows that it really belonged to a man named Neferibre who was a priest in the cults of Isis and the deified Cheops at Giza two thousand years after Cheops died. The ring is unusually heavy and is made of gold more than twenty-one karats pure.
Late Period, 26th to 27th Dynasty,
ca. 664-404 BC. Brooklyn Museum,
37.734E.
Ancient Egyptian limestone statue depicting the goddess Isis and Wepwawet, wolf-headed deity from the Upper Egyptian city of Asyut (Lykopolis). The statue is inscribed with the name of Siese, Overseer of the Two Granaries under the 19th Dynasty pharaoh Ramesses II “The Great” (r. 1279-1213 BCE). From Siese’s tomb at Asyut; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
