Egyptian and Phoenician Stone Scarab Group

SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1650 B.C. AND LATER

3/8 - 1/2 in. (4.85 grams total, 9-14 mm).

Comprising: one with interlocking spirals; one depicting an adult and child with the hieroglyphs for gold (nbw) and the sun disc above; one bearing the schematic image of Bes; one pink stone scaraboid with two birds with open wings and other symbols; and one with a kneeling figure with hand to mouth. [5, No Reserve]

Provenance

From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Literature

Cf. Ben-Tor, D., Scarabs, Chronology, and Interconnections: Egypt and Palestine in the Second Intermediate Period, Fribourg/Göttingen, 2007, pl. 32, Design Class 2B, for examples of the interlocking spiral motif; Newberry, P.E., Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire N° 36001-37521, Scarab-shaped Seals, Cairo, 1907, pl. IX, no. 36313, for a scarab with a similarly schematic Bes; Petrie, W.M.F., Button and Design Scarabs, London, 1925, pl. XIV, no. 943, for a scarab with a kneeling figure.

CONDITION

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