Scarab
- Hilton Price Number
- HP187
- Current Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Museum Accession Number
- 26.7.86
- Object Type
- Scarab, seal, scaraboid, intaglio and similar objects, Scarab
- Period
- Second Intermediate Period
- Dynasty
- Seventeenth Dynasty
- Ruler
- Sobekemsaf I
- Materials
- Metals/alloys (Gold) | Stone/minerals (Jasper)
- Provenance
- Egypt
- Measurements
- Length: 2.5cm
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Culture
- Egyptian
Licensing details
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- Description
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Dark green basalt Scarab, set In a gold covering, upon which is inscribed [hieroglyphs] Neter nefer Sebek-em-sa-f ṭā ānx, "Beautiful god, Sebek-em-sa-f, giver of life," surrounded by a linear ornament. Very fine work. L. I in.
- Bibliography
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Price, Frederick George Hilton (1897) A catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities in the possession of F. G. Hilton Price. London: Quaritch. [p. 27] Anonymous (1911). Catalogue of the important and extensive collection of Egyptian antiquities, the property of the late F. G. Hilton-Price, Esq. [...] : which will be sold by auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge [...] on Wednesday, 12th July, 1911, and two following days, and on Monday, the 17th of July, and four following days. London: Davy. [p. 122, pl. XXII]
- Link To Museum Catalogue
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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/549519
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- Buyer
- Feuardent
- Former Owner
- Frederick George Hilton Price (1842–1909)
- Language
- Egyptian
- Script
- Hieroglyphic
- Last modified: 17 Aug 2021