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Scarab with a Hawk-Headed Figure Set in a Swivel Ring

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Accession: 42.151
Date: 4th century BCE (Late Period-early Ptolemaic)
Date range: 400 BCE – 300 BCE
Materials: ['lapis lazuli; mount: gold']
Repository: Walters Art Museum
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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian), Scarab with a Hawk-Headed Figure Set in a Swivel Ring (42.151). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/220685

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<p>This lapis lazuli scarab bears an image of a hawk-headed figure wearing a ram's-horn crown carved in intaglio on the underside. In the figure's left hand is a staff from which a lotus blossom dangles.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.151' rel='external'>Scarab with a Hawk-Headed Figure Set in a Swivel Ring</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

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Walters-AccNum 42.151 tier-2
Walters-id 35459 tier-2

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