Scarab Inscribed with a Blessing Related to Amun (Amun-Re)

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ca. 1070–664 B.C. · Egyptian Blue · Egyptian Art

Scarabs bearing wishes and blessings related to divinities whose protection individuals wished to summon are particular popular during the late New Kingdom and the Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1295-664 B.C.). Three signs are engraved on the base of this scarab: the solar barque, referring to the sun god, is placed underneath an eye and the hieroglyph for ‘blessed, venerated’. Thus, this inscription expresses a blessing related to the sun god, Amun or Amun-Re, and considers the owner to be blessed when the god watches over him or her.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1070–664 B.C.

Medium

Egyptian Blue

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910