commemorative scarab;
forgery(?)
- Museum number
- EA65800
- Description
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Glazed steatite commemorative scarab with the elytra marked and the humeral callosities present, feathered legs, longitudinally pierced, the base inscribed with eight rows of hieroglyphs commemorating the arrival of the princes of Naharin to the court of Thutmose IV and including the name of the Aten, possibly a forgery.
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.03 centimetres
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Length: 5.12 centimetres
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Width: 3.80 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
royal
- Curator's comments
- Original publications when still in the collection of Nash:
Chassinat, RecTrav 39 (1921), 110
Shorter, JEA 17 (1931), 23-5.
Bannister and Plenderleith, JEA 22 (1936), 3ff
Shaefer, Orientalische Literaturzeitung 1931, no. 9/10, 788
Stadelmann, MDAIK 21 (1966), 112
In BM
Jaeger GM 74 (1984), 43
Bickel, BSEG 13 (1989), 30-1, n. 42
Reeves, Akhenaten, 49-50.
(also: Redford JARCE 13; Bryan 1991)
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair
- Acquisition date
- 1959
- Acquisition notes
- According to Shorter, the object was originally in the possession of Grebaut.
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA65800
- Registration number
- 1959,1212.1