Gem with a Phoenician inscription (mid-1st millennium B.C.), set in an antique-style Safavid silver ring (17th–early 18th centuries)

Gem with a Phoenician inscription (mid-1st millennium B.C.), set in an antique-style Safavid silver ring (17th–early 18th centuries) Oval chalcedony gem with a beveled edge. Enclosed by an oval line near the edge is a two-line, mirror-image inscription in the Phoenician alphabet, with the lines separated by a horizontal line. The gem was later set in a silver ring during the Safavid period. The ring shank is slightly domed at the bottom, surmounted by a high, steep-walled setting that tapers

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