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EGYPTIAN STEATITE SCARAB
SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 17TH-16TH CENTURY B.C.
3/4 in. (4.06 grams, 21 mm).

Finely carved scarab with naturalistically detailed legs and head, the underside decorated with a standing figure atop a neb hieroglyph facing a stylised crocodile.

PROVENANCE:
with Archeological Centre, 2015.
Private collection, Europe.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Ben-Tor, D., Scarabs, Chronology, and Interconnections: Egypt and Palestine in the Second Intermediate Period, Zurich, 2007, p.176, for discussion of this scarab type, and pl.99, no.9, for an example.

FOOTNOTES:
Scarabs with this design have been discovered in the northern Delta of Egypt and Palestine. The influence of the crocodile god Sobek on the production of late middle Bronze Age settlers at Avaris in the Egyptian Delta likely contributed to the popularity of Egyptian-themed scarabs with crocodiles and standing figures found in Palestinian sites.

CONDITION