Naturalistic Scarab

664-525 BCE (Late Period)

2.9 cm 1.3 cm 3.2 cm

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This naturalistic faience scarab has a medium high back with a detailed design of shallowly incised fine lines for the plates and wing cases. The lines are narrowly and evenly spaced. The proportions of the top are almost balanced. The bottom of the scarab has modeled body str...

Artifact

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24171
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""Sheikh of the Pyramids"" [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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