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Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
NEW KINGDOM, 1293-1240 B.C.
1 in. (6.76 grams, 26 mm).
A steatite scarab depicted in flight, with simple detailing to the body and legs; geometric motif engraved to base; pierced for suspension. [No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
From an old UK collection.
From the private collection of Alf Baxendale (1941-2016) part 2, keen Egyptologist, member of the Egyptology Society, trustee of the Amarna Trust; thence by descent.
Accompanied by an identification display card.
Accompanied by a copy of his obituary published in Horizon, The Amarna Project and Amarna Trust newsletter, Issue 18, 2017, p.21, by Barry John Kemp, CBE, FBA, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge and directing excavations at Amarna in Egypt.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Newberry, P.E., Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du musée du Caire, nos. 36001-37521, Scarab-shaped Seals, London, 1907, p.194, no. 36772, pls. XIII and XX, for a scarab with near identical back and base motif; Petrie, W.M.F., Scarabs and Cylinders with Names, London, 1917, pl. LXVIII R 32 (no. 19.3.102), for similar back design.
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