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Scarab with a seated god
Near Eastern, Levantine, Phoenician
Iron Age II
9th–8th century B.C.
Medium/Technique
Steatite
Dimensions
Length: 19 mm (3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Perry Warren
Accession Number13.130
CollectionsJewelry, Africa and Oceania, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Scarabs and scaraboids
DescriptionBone-colored steatite scarab. Back carved as beetle with beaded line dividing elytra and bordering thorax, and roughly carved legs. On base, hawk-headed figure (god Ra-Horakhty?), holding a papyrus stalk, enthroned to right. Above, a sun-disk. At left, a feather. Hollowed out exergue. Single line border.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Suessula.); gift of Edward Perry Warren to MFA, January 2, 1913.