LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 7TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.

The Hans Goedicke Foundation for Egyptology, for which this scarab was previously sold to fund, is dedicated to the funding and promotion of Egyptian philology, epigraphy, art and history, from the early Old Kingdom through to the Roman period. Now the 'Stiftungsfonds für Postgraduates der Ägyptologie', it was originally funded by Goedicke, a renowned Egyptologist and collector who was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.
Cf. C. Andrews, Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London, 1994, p. 59, pl. 59a, for a haematite scarab with ram's head.