AN EXTRAORDINARY PHOENICIAN - EGYPTIAN CARNELIAN... Lot 28
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AN EXTRAORDINARY PHOENICIAN - EGYPTIAN CARNELIAN SCARAB. SUBMISSION SCENE WITH A CARTOUCHE.
5th century B.C.
13x17x9 mm
The beetle well-detailed, the underside engraved with an Egyptian king attacking a supplicating eastern character, the king wearing a belted kilt, a broad collar and a filleted wig topped with a plumed crown, a mace in his upraised hand, a bow and arrows in the other, the oriental subdued man bearded, wearing a pleated garment, an inscribed cartouche behind the king, the crosshatched exergue (an Egyptian nb sign) as the groundline, enclosed within a hatched border.Wear marks. Chip, internal crack and missing on the edge.
For a carnelian scarab with the same subject but different inscription within the cartouche see no. 18/X4, pl. 54, in Boardman, Classical Phoenician Scarabs.
Provenance: Formerly in an American Private Collection, 1950s ; Ex Christie's NY, December 2009, lot 378.
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