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LOT 0413
Egyptian Mixed Scarab Collection
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
1/2 - 7/8 in. (19.5 grams total, 14-23 mm).
Comprising (from left to right and top to bottom): 1) a scarab with an oval border containing, on either side, a maat feather, rearing cobra, and Dual Crown flanking a central column composed of ‘r’–‘n’–‘r’- sa (x2)-ka-neb signs; 2) a scarab with an oval border containing the throne name of pharaoh Amenhotep III (Neb-Maat-Re); 3) a scarab with an oval border containing a seated deity holding an ankh sign, facing sa, water, and neb signs; 4) a scarab with an oval border containing a running ibex surrounded by foliage; 5) a scarab with partially preserved design that gives the throne name of pharaoh Akhenaten (Nefer-kheperu-Re); 6) a scarab with an oval border containing a viper, duck and nefer signs. [7]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
Cf. 1) Ben-Tor, D., Scarabs, Chronology, and Interconnections: Egypt and Palestine in the Second Intermediate Period, Fribourg/Göttingen, 2007, pl. 56, no. 44, for a design incorporating the same three-sign border motif and a central sign group column; 2) Petrie, W.M.F., Scarabs and Cylinders with Names, London, 1917, pl. XXXIV, nos. 87-88, for the same design; 3) Newberry, P.E., Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire N° 36001-37521, Scarab-shaped Seals, Cairo, 1907, pl. XIV, no. 36571, for a motif using a horizontal sa sign; 4) Matouk, F.S., Corpus du scarabée égyptien. Vol. 2: Analyse thématique, Beirut, 1976, p. 387, no. 711, for a similar motif; 5) Petrie, W.M.F., Scarabs and Cylinders with Names, London, 1917, pl. XXXVI, no. 25, for comparable arrangement of signs making the name; 6) Newberry, P.E., Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire N° 36001-37521, Scarab-shaped Seals, Cairo, 1907, pl. VIII, no. 36426, for a similar design theme.
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