Scarab with Two Different Images of Thoth

646-342 BCE (Late Period)

1.2 cm 0.7 cm 1.7 cm

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This steatite scarab has a flat underside with a horizontally arranged design of two different images of a god, Thoth. The first figure has a human body and ibis head, and the second is baboon-shaped with hands on the knees and tail raised in back. The top design is detailed....

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