Egyptian Faience Scarab with Hieroglyphs

LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.

7/8 in. (4.18 grams, 23 mm).

Blue glazed faience scarab beetle, with detailed features; the underside decorated with a recumbent jackal above a seated figure in an attitude of praise before two hieroglyphs.

Provenance

From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

CONDITION

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LOT 0498