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Scarab with a rosette
Near Eastern, Levantine, Phoenician
Iron Age II
9th–8th century B.C.
Medium/Technique
Steatite and silver ?
Dimensions
Length: 31 mm (1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Perry Warren
Accession Number13.132
CollectionsJewelry, Africa and Oceania, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Scarabs and scaraboids
DescriptionBone-colored steatite scarab in silver (?) mount. Back carved as beetle with double line dividing elytra and single line between thorax and elytra, and legs roughly carved. On base, rosette composed of petals and scrolls around a central disc. 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.