Keywords: Egyptian - Scarab - Walters 42383 - Right.jpg This scarab has a flat underside without a bottom design The design of the back is very detailed with fine incised hatch marks and shoulder marks and irregular line flow The proportions of the top are well balanced The workmanship is excellent and the piece is elaborately made The scarab functioned as a funerary amulet with a renewal connotation and could have been an inlay of a pectoral or a heart scarab The piece was originally mounted or threaded between 664 486 BC Late Period dark green jasper cm 1 3 2 3 3 1 accession number 42 383 949 Henry Walters Baltimore 1913 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1913 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian scarabs in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review |