Egyptian Faience Scarab for Thutmose III

SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1650 B.C.

5/8 in. (1.96 grams, 16 mm).

Amuletic scarab bead with cartouche of Thutmose III flanked by erect sacred uraei to the underside.

Provenance

From a family collection formed 1900-1950; by descent circa 1980.

Literature

Cf. Andrews, C., Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London, 1994, 58(c).

CONDITION

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