Large Amuletic Bead

ca. 1300 BCE (New Kingdom)

2.2 cm 4.4 cm 1 cm

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In addition to its original function as a personal seal, the scarab became one of the most powerful amulets, used by the living and entombed with the dead. Countless variations have been preserved, differing in design, size, and material, but always associated with eternity an...

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