Scarab with sphinx and inscription

Third Intermediate Period or Late Period

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 130

The scarab’s base displays at the top a recumbent sphinx facing right. It has the body of a lion and the head of a king, with a royal beard and the nemes headcloth with rearing uraeus on the forehead. It holds a hes-vase, the hieroglyph for praise, between its front paws. The sphinx–like the horse and the bull–is one of the animals that symbolizes the king. Below hieroglyphs complete the inscription.

Scarab with sphinx and inscription, Faience

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Scarab with sphinx and inscription, Faience
Scarab with sphinx and inscription, Faience
Scarab with sphinx and inscription, Faience
Scarab with sphinx and inscription, Faience

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