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| Keywords: Egyptian - Scarab with New Year Request - Walters 42392 - Bottom.jpg This serpentine scarab has a flat underside with a vertically arranged inscription requesting good luck for the New Year The design of the back is detailed with thick deeply incised lines and regular line flow The workmanship is slightly rough and the forms of the script signs are very reduced This scarab originally functioned as an amulet and was threaded or mounted It has a regenerative connotation and focuses on the new years ritual between 1070 525 BC Third Intermediate-early Late Period green serpentine cm 0 7 1 2 1 7 accession number 42 392 27960 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Translation Happy New Year place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian scarabs in the Walters Art Museum Horns wp hieroglyph Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
