Egyptian Stone Scarab Group

SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1600-30 B.C.

3/8 - 5/8 in. (7.12 grams total, 10-17 mm).

Comprising: carnelian type with plain underside; similar with incuse hand symbol; small greenstone type with scarab beetle and other signs; grey stone type with sphinx, indistinct hes- vase above, and two papyrus stalks below; another with a decorative cartouche panel and other signs; two supplied with a museum-quality impression. [5, No Reserve]

Provenance

From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Literature

Cf. Newberry, P.E., Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire N° 36001-37521, Scarab-shaped Seals, Cairo, 1907, pl. XIV, no. 36667, for a similar sphinx design scarab; pl. XIV, no. 36350, for a scarab with hand motif; Ben-Tor, D., Scarabs, Chronology, and Interconnections: Egypt and Palestine in the Second Intermediate Period, Fribourg/Göttingen, 2007, pl. 57, for scarabs bearing decorative cartouche panels combined with numerous signs.

CONDITION

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