Egyptian cowroid, inscribed with hes-jar

An image of Scarab. Cowroid, inscribed with hes-jar. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Sedment, Egypt 1723. Stone, carnelian or maybe glazed steatite, carved, length 1.4 cm, 1479-1425 B.C. Eighteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom.

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Scarab. Cowroid, inscribed with hes-jar. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Sedment, Egypt 1723. Stone, carnelian or maybe glazed steatite, carved, length 1.4 cm, 1479-1425 B.C. Eighteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom.

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Accession Number: E.32.1921
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/20.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 821 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 107.68kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 20/1
Captured: 2010:04:26 21:11:57

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15th Century amulet Ancient Egypt antiquity BC blue carnelian cowrie shells cowroid Egyptian Fitz_ANT hes jar hes-jar inscribed inscriptions jar New Kingdom pale blue scarab seal shells soapstone steatite

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