AN EGYPTIAN GREEN AND WHITE JASPER WINGED SCARAB BEETLE
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AN EGYPTIAN GREEN AND WHITE JASPER WINGED SCARAB BEETLE

DYNASTY XXV OR XXVI, CIRCA 747-525 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN GREEN AND WHITE JASPER WINGED SCARAB BEETLE
DYNASTY XXV OR XXVI, CIRCA 747-525 B.C.
With green body, white wings and incised details, a suspension ring on the underside
¾ in. (2 cm.) wide
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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Animals, 1996, III, no. 8; and Noah's Ark, 1997, no. 3.

For two other amulets in banded jasper, cf. R. Fazzini, Images for Eternity, Egyptian Art from Berkeley and Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, 1975, p. 110, no 91, (54.198) a green and white ram's head; and D. Arnold, An Egyptian Bestiary, New York, 1995, p. 48, no. 58, a fly pendant (55.172) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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