between 1200 B.C. and 1100 B.C.
shell
18.5 x 8.5 mm
Morgan Seal 1003
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan sometime between 1885 and 1908.
Notes:
"Scarabs made during the Hyksos period in Palestine are marked by strong outlines filled with hatching or crosshatching. This style appears also in a few of the cylinders found in Palestinian excavations... Though 1003 may be a crude example of the same style of engraving, it is characterized principally by its material, which is either bone or ivory; both of these were occasionally used for Palestinian scarabs but never for Syrian cylinders."--Porada, CANES, p. 137
Summary:
Human figure(?) and two Egyptian life signs (one reversed), each in panel.
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