Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab
Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab
Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab
Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab
Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab
Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab
Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab
Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab
Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab
Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab
Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab
Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab
Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab
Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab
Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab
Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab
Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab
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Egyptian Hyksos Tan Steatite Design Class Scarab

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Second Intermediate Period (Hyksos era), Dynasties XIII – XVII, c. 1750 – 1550 BCE,

Upper register: a crocodile shown in profile, body elongated horizontally with cross-hatched scaly back — emblematic of the god Sobek, lord of the Nile, and a symbol of royal might and aggressive protection.  Lower register: a recumbent gazelle or antelope, legs folded beneath the body, with cross-hatched body texturing; a desert-margin animal associated with swiftness, regeneration, and Levantine Hyksos iconography of the zoomorphic design-class scarab tradition. 

Comparable cross-hatched-ground SIP scarabs with crocodile and gazelle / antelope motifs are held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museums Scotland (Petrie Tell el-Ajjul material), and the LACMA Cooney corpus, and are catalogued in Tufnell, Studies on Scarab Seals II* (1984) and Hornung & Staehelin (1976).

Size 5/8 in L. Intact. Pierced longitudinally through the body — perforation clearly visible on the ends.

Provenance: Ex  NY collector, Acquired in The USA Market.

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