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LOT 0052
Egyptian Faience Hieroglyphic Scarab Group
SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1650 B.C.
5/8 - 3/4 in. (12.1 grams total, 15-19 mm).
Comprising: one in white glazed composition with figure of a baboon (the god Thoth) to the underside; four similar in blue-turquoise with hieroglyphs. [5]
Provenance
From a family collection formed 1900-1950; by descent circa 1980.
Literature
Cf. Andrews, C., Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London, 1994, item 58(b,c).
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