Scarab with Coil and Scrolls Design
Middle Kingdom
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Designs with twirling continuous lines and coils, sometimes forming complicated woven patterns, appear on scarabs in the early Middle Kingdom and became very popular in late Dynasty 12–Dynasty 13 (ca. 1850–1640 B.C.). On this late Middle Kingdom scarab, the coils are combined with scrolls.
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