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| Keywords: Egyptian - Scarab with Unification Image - Walters 4279 - Impression Detail.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 Sematawy 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 | ||||
