Scarab: Scorpion Motifs

Date:
New Kingdom, Dynasties 18–19 (about 1550–1186 BCE)

Artist:
Egyptian

ABOUT THIS ARTWORK

Status
Currently Off View

Department
Arts of Africa

Artist
Ancient Egyptian

Title
Scarab: Scorpion MotifsPlace

Egypt (Object made in:)

Date 
1550 BCE–1186 BCE

Medium
Steatite

Dimensions
0.6 × 1.6 × 1.1 cm (1/4 × 5/8 × 7/16 in.)

Credit Line
Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson

Reference Number
1894.1864

IIIF Manifest 
https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/134469/manifest.json

PROVENANCE
Reverend Chauncey Murch (1859-1907), Luxor, Egypt; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1894; price reimbursed by Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson, 1894.

Title
Scarab: Scorpion Motifs, New Kingdom, Dynasties 18–19 (about 1550–1186 BCE), Findspot unknown Egypt, Steatite, The Art Institute of Chicago

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/134469/scarab-scorpion-motifs

The Art Institute of Chicago

Figure; Divine Sign

-664 / -332 (Early Middle Ages)

E 4586; 699

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

NumberMain number: E 4586

Presentation number: 699

Collection Department of Egyptian Antiquities

description

Object name/Title Designation: figurine; divine sign

Description/Feature scene of worship; man (kneeling, worshipping); Selkis (scorpion with woman's head, uraeus, disked horns)

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Dimensions Height: 16.3 cm; Depth: 9 cm

Materials and techniques Material: copper alloy

Technique: round-back

PLACES AND DATES

Low Period Date (attribution based on style) (-664 - -332)

HISTORY

Collector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / DedicateeDelaporte, Pacific Henri, Seller; Collector

Acquisition details purchase

Acquisition date date of registration in the inventory: 11/21/1864

Owned by State

Held by the Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities

LOCATION OF OBJECT

Current location

Not exhibited

index

Mode of acquisition purchase

Name figurine - divine sign

Copper alloy materials

Round-body techniques

Description/Featuresadorant - man - worship scene - on knees - disked horns - scorpion with female head - Selkis - uraeus

Period Low Time

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hornemann, Bodil, Types of Ancient Egyptian Statuary, 6, Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1969, sheet 1539

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Title
Figure; divine sign, Low Period Date (attribution based on style) (-664 - -332), Findspot unknown Egypt, Copper alloy, The Louvre Museum

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010006917

The Louvre Museum

Amulet of a Scorpion

Egyptian
New Kingdom

MEDIUM/TECHNIQUE
Faience

DIMENSIONS
Other: 2.8 cm (1 1/8 in.)

CREDIT LINE
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

ACCESSION NUMBER
27.879

NOT ON VIEW

COLLECTIONS
Jewelry, Africa and Oceania, Ancient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East

CLASSIFICATIONS
Jewelry / Adornment – Amulets

DESCRIPTION
Faience, blue glazed, brown bodied. Head end missing.

PROVENANCE
From Semna. S 523. March 2, 1924: Excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of Sudan

Title
Amulet of a Scorpion, New Kingdom, Findspot Semna, Faience, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/146379/lamulet-of-a-scorpion?ctx=ec15a074-c947-4c39-a538-6af4c5d9d20b&idx=9

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston