Scarab Amulet

946-525 BC (Third Intermediate-early Late Period)

3.9 cm 1.7 cm 28.5 cm

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Scarab with flat underside and without bottom design. Such a scarab was a funerary amulet with a connotation of renewal. The scarab is pierced and was originally mounted or threaded.

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Mr. Sewell C. Biggs, Middletown, Delaware, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1984, by gift.
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