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| Keywords: Egyptian - Scarab with Perfect Existence Signs - Walters 4237 - Bottom.jpg 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 ca 1648 1539 BC Second Intermediate; Hyksos; late MB IIB beige-brown steatite with green-blue glaze cm 1 1 5 2 1 accession number 42 37 36102 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Translation Sign combination two scrabs above an nb-basket flanked by nfr-signs Perfect existence perfect existence place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license 2D Ancient Egyptian scarabs in the Walters Art Museum Hieroglyphs on scarabs Scarab hieroglyph Hyksos scarabs | ||||
