Ring key, Gudea type 1.b

Ring key, Gudea type 1.b is held by National Museum of Transylvanian History. Museum description: Bronze ring key, Gudea type I.b, variant with the bit derived directly from the stem, subvariant with straight teeth; made by casting; intact.

It has a round, small bow, rectangular in cross-section, with three protuberances on the outside of the bow, positioned at the top in the center and on the sides, close to the junction with the stem. The solid stem, continuing from the bow, is decorated with two mouldings at the upper part separated by a flute, and two others at the lower part; the mouldings are decorated with incisions in the shape of wolf teeth on the upper part of the stem and oblique lines slanting to the left on the mouldings in its lower part.

On the bit of the piece, in the lower half, three lines were incised in the shape of the letter Z. It has eight rectangular teeth arranged in pairs.; N The museum record gives material recorded as mold casting; bronze; The piece was made by casting; measurements max = 1.5 cm; 7.5 cm, bit = 2.1 x 2.5 cm; 0.2-0.5 cm; ext. d. of ring = 2 cm; int. d. of ring = 1.2 cm. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.