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Scarab with Perfect Existence Signs   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Egyptian (?)

Canaanite (?)
Title
Scarab with Perfect Existence Signs
Description
English: This steatite scarab has a flat underside with a horizontally arranged design with three script signs, two repeated. The design of the back is simple with slightly unbalanced proportions. The workmanship of the piece is good and it is simply made.

This amulet has a recreative and /or good luck connotation; the duplication of the signs should strengthen the effect. The third sign is either a fill character, or refers to the all-inclusiveness of 'perfect existence.' The scarab originally would have been mounted or threaded.

The combination of signs on the bottom of this scarab is not common.
Date between circa 1648 and circa 1539 BC
date QS:P571,-1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,-1648-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,-1539-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(Second Intermediate; Hyksos; late MB IIB)
Medium beige-brown steatite with green-blue glaze
Dimensions length: 2.1 cm (0.8 in); height: 1 cm (0.3 in); width: 1.5 cm (0.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2043,2.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2048,1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,1.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
42.37
Place of creation Egypt (?)
Object history
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters
Inscriptions [Translation] Sign combination two scrabs above an nb-basket, flanked by nfr-signs: Perfect existence, perfect existence.
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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