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| Keywords: Egyptian - Scarab with Bird and Papyrus - Walters 4274 - Impression.jpg The ancient Egyptians believed that the dung beetle the Scarabaeus sacer was one of the manifestations of the sun god Representations of these beetles were used as amulets and for ritual or administrative purposes This scarab has a flat bottom with a special design that combines of images and hieroglyphs The layout of the deeply incised design is unusually organized the hieroglyphs face in different directions and some collides with the borderline The dominant icons are a hawk with his outstretched wings and a left rotated pool with the flowers An oval line frames the arrangement It may be possible to interpret the sign combination as cryptographic writing of the royal name Amenhotep The highest point of the back of the scarab is the double partition line between pronotum dorsal plate of the protorax and elytron wing cases Both parts have incised borderlines and a double division line separates the wing cases; the line flow is slightly irregular The semi-oval head is flanked by triangular eyes; the triangular side plates have outer borderlines and the clypeus front plate is marked The head section is very short and the head itself small in comparison to the clypeus The extremities have natural form and diagonal hatch lines for tibial teeth and pilosity hair The oval base is asymmetrical shaped having slightly smaller head part The scarab is longitudinally pierced was originally mounted or threaded and used as an amulet The design should secure the close relation of this king to Amun and provide a private owner with royal patronage of the current king The are several arguments for dating the scarab in the reign of Amenhotep I and not in a later period The figure of the hawk with wide outstretched wings which is popular during the early Thutmoside Period the round-oval shape of the base as well as the clear and simple back design between 1525 1504 BC New Kingdom beige steatite with blue-green glaze cm 0 8 1 3 1 7 accession number 42 74 40707 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Translation Amen-hetep 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 | ||||
