EGYPTIAN NECKLACE WITH SCARAB AND FAIENCE BEADS

Late Period, Ca. 664 - 332 BC A beautiful Egyptian faience necklace with a Late Period scarab. This wearable necklace features a steatite stone scarab strung with faience beads on a later wire. The underside is engraved with a hieroglyphic inscription. Scarabs and faience beads were used extensively in ancient Egyptian burial practices, and often attached to the wrappings of a mummy, providing protection and symbolic decoration.
Size: 320/640mm x 15mm; Weight: 10.6g
Provenance: Property of a London gallery; previously in a collection of a North London gentleman; formerly in a collection of Mrs B. Ellison, a deceased former member of the Egyptian Exploration Fund, bought from the 1940s, Cairo and London.

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Estimate: GBP 150 - 300