Egyptian Green Stone Scarab with Eye of Horus

NEW KINGDOM, 1550-1070 B.C.

5/8 in. (1.4 grams, 15 mm).

With mouth and leg detailing to the edges, incised border enclosing a hatched eye and brow motif in an unusual style. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From an old English collection.
Ex Fellows Auctions, 31 January 2023, no.950.
Private collection, London, UK.

Literature

Cf. Giveon, R., Egyptian Scarabs from Western Asia from the Collections of the British Museum, Freiburg/Göttingen, 1985, pp. 51-52, no. 609, for a naturalistically modelled scarab with a wedjat motif on the underside.

CONDITION

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LOT 0446