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LOT 0446
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]
ProvenanceFrom an old English collection.
Ex Fellows Auctions, 31 January 2023, no.950.
Private collection, London, UK.
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.
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