Ancient beads & amulets: genuine ancient Egyptian faience scarab amulet - bead

Description

Egyptian faience scarab amulet-bead
1 century BC, about 2000 years old
Blue  scarab with beaded outlined elytra and prothorax; hatched short lines along clypeus. Legs are deeply carved. Back is flat with outlined perimeter and a snake
sign
. Pierced
longitudinally.
Good condition, intact.
L. 21 mm, W. 16 mm, H. 9 mm
For similar published scarabs in museum collections see:
- Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna. Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 151 #196; p. 212 #295
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 10
- Art Treasures of Ancient Kuban, Catalog og Exibition, 1987, plate XXXVIII