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Scarab with Script Sign Combination   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anonymous (Egypt)Unknown author
Title
Scarab with Script Sign Combination
Description
English: This steatite scarab has a flat underside with a vertically arranged design with a 'Maat' and longevity/omnipresence of Amun theme composed of four signs lacking syntactical context. The design of the back is simple with unbalanced body proportions and good workmanship. The piece is carefully made. This scarab functioned as a supportive amulet and should secure life and justice. The piece could serve in this world and in the afterlife; as Amun's trigram, it should assure the support of the god. It would have originally been mounted or threaded.
Date between circa 1525 and circa 1492 BC
date QS:P571,-1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,-1525-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,-1492-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(New Kingdom of Egypt
era QS:P2348,Q180568
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Medium beige steatite with green-blue glaze
Dimensions length: 1.4 cm (0.5 in); height: 0.6 cm (0.2 in); width: 1.1 cm (0.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2043,1.45U174728
dimensions QS:P2048,0.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,1.1U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
42.55
Place of creation Egypt
Object history
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters, 1929
Inscriptions [Translation] Group of four hieroglyphic signs, which does not provide a syntactical context: Lord/all (?) - life - Maat - Lord/all (?).
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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