Egyptian Mixed Scarab Collection. 2nd-1st millennium B.C. Comprising (from left to right and top to bottom): 1) a scarab with an oval border containing the seated figure of a seated deity with arm raised in adoration before the sign partially resembling the hieroglyphic sign for a ‘thousand’, with the water and signs below; 2) a scarab with a faint oval border containing the honey bee and reed leaf symbols; 3) a scarab with an oval border containing the throne name of the 19th Dynasty pharaoh, Ramesses II (User-Maat-Re) atop a neb sign; 4) a scarab with indeterminate signs; 5) a scarab with an oval border containing the falcon god Ra-Horakhty standing atop a neb sign; 6) a scarab inscribed with numerous geometric designs that incorporate the name Amun-Re; 7) a plain scaraboid. Cf. 2) Petrie, W.M.F., Button and Design Scarabs, London, 1925, pl. XXX, no. 1469, for a partially preserved rectangular seal with the same hieroglyphs; 3) Petrie, W.M.F., Scarabs and Cylinders with Names, London, 1917, pl. XLI, no. 98, for similar; 5) Petrie, W.M.F., Button and Design Scarabs, London, 1925, pl. XIX, nos. 1484 and 1487, for slight variations of this design; 6) Petrie, W.M.F., Scarabs and Cylinders with Names, London, 1917, pl. XIX, no. 1471, for a scarab with a similarly themed motif. 17.4 grams total, 10-20 mm (3/8 - 3/4 in.). [7]

From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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