Scarabs with Inscriptions on Base

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Arts of Africa

Early Middle Kingdom–New Kingdom, Dynasties 11–20 (about 2055–1069 BCE)

Egyptian

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Africa

Artist: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Scarabs with Inscriptions on Base
Place: Egypt (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 2055 BCE–1069 BCE
Medium: Glazed steatite
Dimensions: 1 × 0.6 × 0.5 cm (3/8 × 1/4 × 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the President and the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund from Temple of Der el Bahari
Reference Number: 1897.289n
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Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 122.
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 38.

Egypt Exploration Fund; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1897.

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