LOT 43 Egyptian Scarab with Hieroglyphs
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Second Intermediate Period, 1664-1569 B.C. A stone scarab with stylised anatomical detailing to the head and legs, slender scrolling flourishes to the carapace, pierced for suspension; the exquisitely carved base decorated with a rope border surrounding three vertical registers; the left and right registersprising the same mirrored group of the following signs: nefer, rearing cobra, mouth, rearing cobra, and oars; the central register beginning with a nefer sign flanked by throw sticks(?), and then followed by a groupprising two upraised arms (ka), two outstretched arms, a water sign, a sedge plant, a seated figure, and a nub (gold) sign; apanied by a custom-made display stand. Cf. Ben-Tor, D., Scarabs, Chronology, and Interconnections Egypt and Palestine in the Second Intermediate Period, Göttingen, 2007, pp.78, 81-82, for a discussion of the key design elements. 4.2 grams, 24 mm (16 grams total, 46 mm high including stand) (1 in. (1 3/4 in.)). Acquired in the 1990s. Property of of a London gentleman. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. The use of confronted cobras, ka signs with a double horizontal line, and a sedge plant used informally, are indicative of scarabs of the Second Intermediate Period that occur within Egypt as well as sites outside, such as Canaan and Palestine, where they were copied. [A video of this lot is available to view on Timeline Auctions .]
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