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LOT 0508
Large Egyptian Steatite Scarab
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
1 1/8 in. (9.92 grams, 28 mm).
A line border encloses the standing figure of a falcon-headed deity wearing a sun disc and uraeus, and holding a was-sceptre, standing before the hieroglyphs user, Maat, Re, setep, n, Re, neb), all surmounting a larger neb sign.
Provenance
From 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.
Footnotes
The design incorporates much of Ramesses II’s throne name, ‘the justice of Re is powerful, chosen of Re (user-Maat-Re setep-n-Re).
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