Object Image

Scarab Inscribed with a Crouching Ibex

Unknown Artist

The base of this scarab is decorated with the image of an Ibix lying down among plants.

Credit: Rogers Fund, 1911

c. 1390-1353 B.C.

Steatite

0.6 in

11.215.17

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