File:Egyptian - Scarab with Royal Solar Filiations Title - Walters 4275 - Impression.jpg

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Scarab with Royal Solar Filiations Title   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Anonymous (Egypt)Unknown author
Title
Scarab with Royal Solar Filiations Title
Description
English: This steatite scarab is inscribed on the underside in sunk relief with the royal "solar filiations" title in a Maat-related phrase. The back in incised with a simple design with short and aligned side-notches and a deeply incised head section. The workmanship of the piece is rough and it is poorly made. The piece functioned as an amulet with royal motto and divine provider individualization, and was originally mounted or threaded. The amulet should provide its owner with the support of the king, as well as of Amun.
Date between 1186 and 736 BC (late New Kingdom-early Third Intermediate)
Medium beige steatite with light blue-green glaze
Dimensions length: 1.7 cm (0.6 in); height: 0.9 cm (0.3 in); width: 1.3 cm (0.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2043,1.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2048,0.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,1.3U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
42.75
Place of creation Egypt (?)
Object history
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters
Inscriptions [Translation] "Solar filiations" title as part of a Maat-related royal phrase. The m3c.t-feather is reversed: Perfect of Maat is the Son of Re.
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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current04:19, 25 March 2012Thumbnail for version as of 04:19, 25 March 2012900 × 700 (150 KB)File Upload Bot (Kaldari) (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Walters Art Museum artwork |artist = Egyptian |title = ''Scarab with Royal Solar Filiations Title'' |description = {{en|This steatite scarab is inscribed on the underside in sunk relief with the royal...