Scarab with Adoration Scene with Sun Barque and Baboons
Description
<p>This amethyst scarab has a high back with incised designs. The bottom is carved with an adoration scene with a sun barque and baboons. The bottom design is very rough and incised with a few thick lines; the borderline is not consistent and some parts are missing, and the layout is not very well balanced. The piece is simply made.This scarab functioned as a funerary amulet, and was originally mounted or threaded. The amulet should guarantee the renewal of the deceased in the afterlife by the appearance of the sun god. The use of the gemstone material amethyst, with its very light reddish coloration (color of the sun rise) should intensify the magic power of the amulet.There are similar motifs with divine barque and flanking baboons in adoration gesture on finger rings from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Amethyst was a popular material for Egyptian scarabs, but most of them are without bottom designs.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.396' rel='external'>Scarab with Adoration Scene with Sun Barque and Baboons</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>
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- Walters-AccNum 42.396 tier-2
- Walters-id 31402 tier-2
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