Phoenician Stone Scarab with Inscription

1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

1 in. (9.7 grams, 27 mm).

With detailing to the carapace, the underside divided into four registers, the top and bottom with a winged Horus plaque, one register with a winged scarab flanked by two falcons, the register below with lying sphinxes flanking an ankh; pierced longitudinally.

Provenance

Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.

Literature

Cf. A scarab (accession number:76.30.1924) in The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, for a Phoenician scarab with a similar double-winged scarab.

CONDITION

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