Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra
Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra
Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra
Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra
Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra
Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra
Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra
Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra
Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra
Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra
Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra
Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra
Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra
Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra
Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra
Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra

Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glaze Steatite Scarab for Amon Ra

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New Kingdom, Dynasties XVIII–XX, c. 1550 – 1070 BCE.   A vibrant ancient Egyptian glazed faience scarab amulet of the sacred dung beetle Khepri, the god of the rising sun and rebirth, finely modeled in electric turquoise-blue faience with a richly molded base bearing a cryptographic / trigrammatic invocation of Amun-Ra, the supreme state god of New Kingdom Egypt. Pierced longitudinally for stringing as a personal protective amulet.

The dorsal surface displays the canonical anatomy of the kheper beetle — a domed back with crisply incised central elytra suture, schematic clypeus and head plate, and tucked legs along both flanks. The base bears a moulded design framed by an oval cartouche border containing the classic New Kingdom Amun-Ra trigram (cryptogram):

The composition is the classic Ramesside-period amuletic legend: Imn-Rꜥ Nb Mꜣꜥt* — "Amun-Ra, Lord of Truth (Maat)".  The doubled neb baskets flanking the central Amun-comb are a well-attested decorative-symmetrical convention on New Kingdom scarabs, sometimes read as an emphatic doubling ("Lord, Lord") or as part of the longer formula "Imn-Rꜥ nb pt" ("Amun-Ra, Lord of Heaven") or "Imn-Rꜥ nb mꜣꜥt" ("Amun-Ra, Lord of Truth"). The fuller amuletic reading attested on parallel scarabs in the Petrie Museum and the Hornung & Staehelin Basel corpus is:  "Amun-Ra, Lord of Truth"* — a cultic title of the supreme state god of New Kingdom Egypt, invoking divine justice and cosmic order for the wearer's protection.   This trigram-with-flanking-neb-baskets layout appears in: Petrie, Scarabs and Cylinders with Names* (1917), pl. XXXVII–XL (New Kingdom Amun-Ra scarabs)Brilliant turquoise-cobalt blue glaze with darker accumulations in the deeper grooves and slight greenish weathering at the edges

Size 3/4 in L. Intact. Pierced longitudinally for suspension; perforation clear on both ends.

Condition  Intact, with attractive surface bloom and minor old earthen / mineral encrustation in the recesses of the base. No restoration or repainting

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

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