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A Egyptian Green Glazed Faience Scaraboid, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 - 1069 BCE Jewelry flourishing for almost five hundred

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flourishing for almost five hundred years

The chieftan's face is decorated with two snake tattoos

Exhibited:   Metropolitan Museum of Art

and two flanking curvilinear ridges moulded to protect the Achilles tendon from slashing blows

A Egyptian Green Glazed Faience Scaraboid, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 - 1069 BCE Jewelry flourishing for almost five hundredPierced longitudinally for threading, the base of this scaraboid inscribed with the text "The image of Amun. Amun, once a local Theban deity, rose to become the 'King of the Gods' in ancient Egypthis name meaning 'The Hidden One.' When the Theban princes drove out the Hyksos and founded the Eighteenth Dynasty, Amun became pre eminent; united with the sun god to give him universal appeal, and Amen Re became king of the gods. Medium: Faience Condition:

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