Scarab with blessing related to Amun(-Re)

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ca. 1070–664 B.C. · Blue faience or glass · 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.). This scarab calls for the protection of the sun god Amun or Amun-Re, referred to by the image of the solar barque. He is here called upon for his excellent counsel, as the inscription under the barque indicates.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1070–664 B.C.

Medium

Blue faience or glass

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910