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LOT 0467
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 is decorated with a recumbent jackal above a seated figure in an attitude of praise before two hieroglyphs, along with a slim neb sign below.
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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