Scarab Inscribed with a Blessing Related to Bastet
New Kingdom or later
New Kingdom or later
Not on view
The underside is inscribed with hieroglyphs forming the blessing ‘(may) Bastet give life and good (things)’. 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.).
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