Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/526
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    558/748 (page 48)
    337 338 339 340 341 343 344 345 346 347 348 352 SCARABS. Three very fine Scarabs, one containing the cartouche (prenomen) of Amenhetep III, 18¢2 Dynasty ; another, inscribed ‘‘ The pro- phet of Anhur Se Amon”; and a steatite Scarab, inscribed 3 Six Scarabs with scroll designs, steatite ; and one Scaraboid 7 A steatite Scarab, showing traces of ancient glaze, lion and two uraei in original bronze setting, from H’'sneh; a blue glazed Scarab, 18th Dynasty; and a steatite Scarab, inscribed Nefertari, 18th Dynasty ; a good and interesting lot 3 Seven Scarabs, in steatite, and one Scaraboid, one inscribed with emblem of the goddess Serk ; Middle Kingdom 7 Four Scarabs, one in lapis lazuli, and one skowing ancient silver setting 4 Nine steatite Scarabs, one inscribed “ Good luck and protection ” 9 A similar lot, one with head of the goddess Hathor 12 A similar lot, Scarabs and Scaraboids 12 A similar lot, one having the prenomen of Thothmes III 14 Eleven Scarabs and one Scaraboid, steatite, some showing traces of green glaze 12 A Searaboid, in original bronze ring; and seven steatite Scarabs, showing traces of blue and green glaze, one with prenomen of Thothmes III; 18¢h Dynasty 8 Eleven Scarabs, one in mottled stone, a7e ; and one inscribed ‘ Life of good luck” 11 Ten steatite Scarabs, one Scaraboid, and one Scarab, in carnelian 12 Fifteen steatite Scarabs and one Scaraboid 16 Two steatite Scarabs, one inscribed “ Amen Ra, King of the gods”; another, ‘Amen shining in Thebes”; and a Scaraboid, with the name of the god Khonsu, a fine lot : Four steatite Scarabs, one in a mottled stone, inscribed respectively ‘‘Khonsu em,” ‘“‘Amenhetep,” ‘Amen tchet,” “Amen of Eternity”