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| Keywords: Egyptian - Scarab with Personal Wish Formula - Walters 4262 - Impression Detail.jpg This serpentine scarab has a flat underside with a vertically arranged bottom design and inscription The inscription is a personal wish formula requesting the support and protection of Horus The design on the back of the scarab is very detailed with deeply incised lines and regular line flow The proportions of the top are well balanced The piece is carefully made and the workmanship is good The scarab functioned as a provider individualized amulet with a wish formula The amulet should provide its owner with the protection of Horus It would have originally been mounted or threaded The high quality of the scarab the unusual writing of the wish formula and the special variety of the material demonstrate that this scarab was a special production and not part of a usual series between 664 525 BC early Late Period light brownish olive-green serpentine cm 0 6 0 9 1 2 accession number 42 62 31906 Henry Walters Baltimore 1929 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1929 Translation May the favorite of Horus-son-of-Isis be well and safe place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license 2D Ancient Egyptian scarabs in the Walters Art Museum Hieroglyphs on scarabs Mullet hieroglyph Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Vase hieroglyph Meat hieroglyph Scarabs with Wish Formula | ||||
