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Provenance: Private Virginia collection
halfway between a club and a hammer
depicts a master of animals figure wearing a headdress and ribbed collar with arms raised
the deceased could expect to be united with the sun god during his passage across the sky and through the Underworld to be reborn each morning
Background: There is some conjecture that these glass vessels were actually early Christian amulets taken as relics and/or souvenirs from holy areas
A good Egyptian Greenstone Heart Scarab, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Medium - Gold Provenance: Private Virginia collectionThe scarabs association with the daily rebirth of the young sun god, Khepri, gave the beetle a prominent role in funerary contexts. In this example, the body conforms to the usual scarabaeus sacer; the eyes and head are carved on the five notched shield (clypeus). The first segment of the upper body (prothorax) and wings (elytrae) are separated by incised lines, while the legs (tibiae) to the side, are tucked underneath the body. As is to be expected,
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