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Scarab with New Year Request
(Ancient Egypt and Nubia )
This serpentine scarab has a flat underside with a vertically arranged inscription requesting good luck for the New Year. The design of the back is detailed, with thick, deeply incised lines and regular line flow. The workmanship is slightly rough and the forms of the script signs are very reduced.
This scarab originally functioned as an amulet, and was threaded or mounted. It has a regenerative connotation and focuses on the new years ritual.
Inscription
Provenance
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Egypt (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 1/4 x W: 1/2 x L: 11/16 in. (0.7 x 1.2 x 1.7 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, by 1931
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
42.392