Scarab Inscribed with Wish for Having Children
Third Intermediate Period
Scarabs bearing wishes and blessings related to divinities whose protection individuals wished to summon are particular popular during the late New Kingdom and the Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1295-664 B.C.).
The hieroglyphs inscribed on the base form a wish for offspring. By having this wish inscribed on a protective amulet such as a scarab seal, the owner expressed the very specific wish to have children.
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