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Scarab Inscribed with a Blessing Related to Amun (Amun-Re)

Third Intermediate Period
ca. 1080–664 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 130
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.).

Three signs are engraved on the base of this scarab: the solar barque, referring to the sun god, is placed underneath an eye and the hieroglyph for ‘blessed, venerated’. Thus, this inscription expresses a blessing related to the sun god, Amun or Amun-Re, and considers the owner to be blessed when the god watches over him or her.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Scarab Inscribed with a Blessing Related to Amun (Amun-Re)
  • Period: Third Intermediate Period
  • Date: ca. 1080–664 BCE
  • Geography: From Egypt
  • Medium: Egyptian Blue
  • Dimensions: L. 1.4 × W. 1 cm (9/16 × 3/8 in.)
  • Credit Line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910
  • Object Number: 10.130.647
  • Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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