Scarab

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Penn Museum
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Penn Museum
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Title:
Scarab
Description:
Glazed statite scarab. The base is decorated with a recumbent sphinx facing right. Below the sphinx are the "Two Lands" hieroglyphs. At the very bottom is the sign for "protection" (Gardiner signlist V16). Note bronze in hole.
Type:
Scarab
Type (Narrower):
Other Objects
Type (Broader):
Object
Geographic region:
Egypt
Mit-Rahineh
Provenance:
The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Mit-Rahineh (Memphis), Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1919
Medium:
Steatite
Bronze
Identifier:
184488
Source:
E13812
M10529
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