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Scarab

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Object Number:29-104-23
Current Location: Eastern Mediterranean Gallery
Currently On Display
Provenience: Israel
Beth Shean
Archaeology Area: CN IV, Tomb 219
Section:Near Eastern
Materials:Steatite
Gold
Iconography:King
Double Crown
Sceptre
Height: 1 cm
Length: 2 cm
Width: 1.4 cm
Credit Line:Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1921-1928
Other Number:26-10-187 - Field No SF

Description

In gold mounting with an eye at each end for attachment of the ring. White steatite, brown remains of glaze. On the base is the figure of a king wearing a double crown and holding a sceptre; in front of him is a cartouche containing the prenomen Tuthmosis III.

Oren: “Scarab.” “Description: White steatite with remains of brown glaze; in gold mounting with an eye at each end for the attachment to a ring. Prothorax and wing-cases indicated, legs cut wide open and striated. Back sloping down, head trapezoidal and clypeus in the shape of a crown.

Design: A king wearing the double crown and holding a scepter hqa in front of a cartouche containing Men-Kheper-Ra which is the prenomen of Thuthmose III.”

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Canaan and Ancient Israel (18 Oct 1998 - 02 Aug 2021) View Objects in Exhibition
Eastern Mediterranean Gallery: Crossroads of Culture (19 Nov 2022) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Oren, Eliezer D. 1973. The Northern Cemetery of Beth Shan.. Leiden. E. J. Brill. pg. xx, 307 p. with illus., 3 fold. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Page 126, no. 12; Page 243, opposite Figure 49; Figure 51, no. 22View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Keel, Othmar. 2010. Corpus der Stempelsiegel-Amulette aus Palästina/Israel : von den Anfängen bis zur Perserzeit.. Freiburg. Freiburg, Schweiz. Vol. 2. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pages 138, 139/ cat. no. 91View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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