queen first of Ramses-Siptah, raised Merneptah-Siptah, was then queen of Sethos and later of Seti the Great. This ring is one of two examples with female royal cartouches which led to the conclusion that she had royal status. 
As far as we know this ring was found in a funerary temple attributed to young pharaoh Ramses-Siptah (KV47). In our view she prospered between 720 - 660 BC. See the links.
Using our Calendar Calculator we determined the day of the week as Thursday September 20, 1906 when archaeologists found at Bubastis, the city of the 22nd Dynasty kings, "a gold lotus cup bearing the cartouche of Queen Tawisret and three silver jugs inscribed for a king's butler and king's messenger, Atumemtaneb..." [Reeves, `Ancient Egypt The Great Discoveries', p. 129; See also KMT, Spring 2001, Vol. 12, p. 28 for a not so good image.; For the cartouche of Twosert on a vase from Tell Deir Alla see also BA, June 1987, p. 88.]
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