Scarab Amulet

1333-1279 BCE (New Kingdom, Dynasty 18)

1.9 cm 2.5 cm 1.1 cm

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Some of the hieroglyphic signs have a cryptographic determination as an Amun's trigram: the feather represents "j" in exchange for the reed-leaf, the Maat-figure stands for "m," and the beetle for "n" (derived from "ntr.j", "the divine one"). The sphinx does not seem to be par...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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