A PHOENICIAN CARNELIAN SCARAB
A PHOENICIAN CARNELIAN SCARAB

CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.

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A PHOENICIAN CARNELIAN SCARAB
CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
The beetle well-detailed, the underside engraved with an Egyptian king attacking a supplicating humanoid, the king wearing a belted kilt, a broad collar and a filleted wig topped with a plumed crown, a mace in his upraised hand, a bow and arrows in the other, the humanoid bearded, wearing a pleated garment, an inscribed cartouche behind the king, the crosshatched exergue (an Egyptian nb sign) as the groundline, enclosed within a hatched border; mounted as a swivel ring in a 1920s gold setting
5/8 in. (1.5 cm.) long; ring size 9¼
來源
American Private Collection, 1950s.

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G. Max Bernheimer
G. Max Bernheimer

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For a carnelian scarab with the same subject but different inscription within the cartouche see no. 18/X4, pl. 54, in Boardman, Classical Phoenician Scarabs.