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Description: | Scarab, steatite, greyish, back has 'crack-line' probably intentionally carved as branch motif, underside inscribed with hieroglyphs nefer and ka on neb-sign, under sun-disk Ra between r or neb-hieroglyphs, at top ankh-hieroglyph within oval between and under tail-linked cobras; hieroglyphs selected as powerful signs rather than for connected meaning such as the name of a king, the whole motif derived from king-name scarab designs. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | Rights holder: | University College London | Subjects: | Egyptology | Temporal: | name=Second Intermediate Period; start=-1700; end=-1550 | Source: | UCL Museums | Identifier: | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/objects/LDU... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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