The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Scarab Inscribed with a Decorative Motif

Scarab Inscribed with a Decorative Motif

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Scarab Inscribed with a Decorative Motif

Period:: New Kingdom
Dynasty:: Dynasty 18, early
Reign:: Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
Date:: ca. 1473–1458 B.C.
Geography:: Country of Origin Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Temple of Hatshepsut, Foundation Deposit 7 (G), MMA 1926–1927
Medium:: Steatite (glazed)
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1927
Accession Number:: 27.3.370

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Provenance

Excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1926–1927. Acquired by the Museum in the division of finds, 1927.
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What
Sculpture (24,355)

Scarabs (3,372)

Glazing (3,102)

Talc (2,067)

Steatite (2,057)
Where
Africa (33,577)

Egypt (29,893)

Upper Egypt (13,568)

Thebes (10,504)
When
2000-1000 B.C. (18,742)
In the Museum
Egyptian Art (26,256)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Egypt, 2000–1000 B.C.

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