Reproduction
scarabs
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Scarab of steatite, glaze mostly gone, some traces of light blue; underside inscribed in hieroglyphs with personal name and title 'sealbearer of the king, overseer of the half-domain Sobekneb(iune)sha' (or 'of Sobek' with name 'Neb(iune)sha'?), between vertical lines terminating below in rearing cobra with n-hieroglyph (water-line) and sa-hieroglyph ('protection') above cobra head; upper right area and bottom end inscribed face abraded.
[nb-NO]Documentation[nb-NO]
- Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Scarabs and Cylinders with Names, pl.XVII.13 .B.Q
- Quirke, Stephen, Birth Tusks: the armoury of health in context - Egypt 1800 BC
- Ilin-Tomich, Alexander, Egyptian Name Scarabs from the 12th to the 15th Dynasty: Geography and Chronology of Production, 386, 401
Second Intermediate Period
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]
[nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO]
height: 2.5 cms
width: 1.7 cms
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]
LDUCE-UC11483
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology