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| Keywords: Egyptian - Scarab with Unification Image - Walters 4279 - Impression.jpg This steatite scarab has a flat underside with a vertically arranged bottom design combining the 'unification of the Two Lands' icon with a basket The design of the scarab's back is simple with unbalanced proportions and heavy extremities The piece is simply made and the workmanship is slightly rough This scarab functioned as a funerary amulet and should secure for its owner renewal and royal protection It would have originally been mounted or threaded ca 1648 1539 BC Second Intermediate; Hyksos; late MB IIB beige steatite with light blue glaze cm 0 8 1 2 1 7 accession number 42 79 18783 Henry Walters Baltimore 1929 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1929 Inscription Combination of a sm3-t3 wj-icon unification of the Two Lands and a nb-basket; framed by an oval line place of origin Palestine Walters Art Museum license 2D Ancient Egyptian scarabs in the Walters Art Museum Hieroglyphs on scarabs Sematawy Hyksos scarabs Phoenicians in Egypt | ||||
