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Scarab with duck and cobra
Near Eastern, Levantine, Phoenician
Iron Age
Medium/Technique
Faience
Dimensions
Length: 16 mm (5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Perry Warren
Accession Number13.133
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CollectionsJewelry, Africa and Oceania, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Scarabs and scaraboids
DescriptionBone-colored faience scarab. Back carved as a beetle with double line dividing the elytra and single between elytra and thorax, and hatched front legs. On base, duck walking to right. Above, a cobra facing down. At right, a staff (?). Abraded around the edge.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Suessula.); gift of Edward Perry Warren to MFA, January 2, 1913.