GLAZED STEATITE CROUCHING SPHINX STAMP SEAL, wearing nemes-headdress, a tail curled over the haunches of its spotted leonine body, the rev. two was-dominion signs supporting an ankh-life sign above a nwb-gold sign

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GLAZED STEATITE CROUCHING SPHINX STAMP SEAL, wearing nemes-headdress, a tail curled over the haunches of its spotted leonine body, the rev. two was-dominion signs supporting an ankh-life sign above a nwb-gold sign
1.3 x 0.9cm.
Middle Kingdom/Second Intermediate Period, circa 1800-1600 B.C.

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