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EGYPTIAN STEATITE ROUNDED SCARABOID WITH NEFER SIGNS AND SCR…
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EGYPTIAN STEATITE ROUNDED SCARABOID WITH NEFER SIGNS AND SCR…
Estimate £300 - £600
Voluntary lot
Description
EGYPTIAN STEATITE ROUNDED SCARABOID WITH NEFER SIGNS AND SCROLLS IN SILVER SWIVEL RING.
Middle Kingdom, Ca. 2030 - 1640 BC. A steatite rounded-shaped scaraboid (button seal?) preserving traces of blue glaze, with no detail, and set in a possibly later silver swivel ring with a plain hoop. The flat base is engraved with a motif consisting of two signs for good and beautiful (nfr) in the middle, surrounded by intertwined spirals, the whole enclosed by a single incised line. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 16.10.464; The British Museum, Miscellaneous number: H5115.4. Size: D:20.98mm / US: 11 3/8 / UK: W 1/2; Weight: 4.7g Provenance: From a private UK collection; London art market acquisition; earlier in an Oxford private collection dating to the 1990s.
About the sale
FINE ANCIENT JEWELLERY AND BEADS - THE PRINCE COLLECTION
Auction location
Auction time
06/20/2026 at 2:00 PM
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