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| Keywords: Egyptian - Scarab with Script Sign Combination - Walters 4255 - Transcription.jpg This steatite scarab has a flat underside with a vertically arranged design with a 'Maat' and longevity/omnipresence of Amun theme composed of four signs lacking syntactical context The design of the back is simple with unbalanced body proportions and good workmanship The piece is carefully made This scarab functioned as a supportive amulet and should secure life and justice The piece could serve in this world and in the afterlife; as Amun's trigram it should assure the support of the god It would have originally been mounted or threaded ca 1525 1492 BC New Kingdom beige steatite with green-blue glaze cm 0 6 1 1 1 45 accession number 42 55 7050 Henry Walters Baltimore 1929 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1929 Translation Group of four hieroglyphic signs which does not provide a syntactical context Lord/all - life - Maat - Lord/all place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license 2D Ancient Egyptian scarabs in the Walters Art Museum Hieroglyphs on scarabs Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
