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scarab
Object Type
scarab
Museum number
104925
Description
Glazed white steatite scarab: engraved on the base with an inscription naming Ameni. There is a hole pierced through longitudinally. Abraded.
Cultures/periods
12th Dynasty
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Gezer
Materials
steatite
Technique
engraved
pierced
glazed
Dimensions
Length:
24.50 millimetres
Width:
17 millimetres
Depth:
10 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Ameni is a well known personal name of the Middle Kingdom (Ranke, 'Personennamen' I p. 31 No. 13).
A group of scarabs acquired on 12th April 1913, recognisible by the number beginning 104, is mentioned in the Museum's records in the following terms: " ... many of (these) were found at Gezer and sites in the immediate neighbourhood of that place ... " As the other large group of scarabs (numbers beginning 105) recorded as coming from Gezer in the Museum was acquired in October 1912, both groups may have come from the same illicit digging activities.
Bibliographic references
Giveon R 1985a / Egyptian scarabs from Western Asia from the collections of the British Museum
(p.110, no.2)
Martin 1971 / Egyptian administrative and private-name seals, principally of the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period
(p.21, no.209; pl.35,36)
Ranke 1935 / Die ägyptischen Personennamen I: Verzeichnis der Namen
(p.31, no.13)
(inscription)
Location
Not on display
Condition
Fair; abraded.
Associated names
Named in inscription:
Ameni
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Rev Kenneth L Reynolds
Acquisition date
1912
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
104925
Registration number
1912,1012.26