Scarab with Blessing Related to Amun (Amun-Re)

Third Intermediate Period

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 130

This scaraboid calls for the protection of the sun god Amun-Re, referred to by the image of the solar barque. Scarabs bearing wishes and blessings related to divinities whose protection individuals wished to summon are particular popular during the (late) New Kingdom and the Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1295-664 B.C.).

The hieroglyph for good and beautiful (nefer) and a seated figure are placed underneath the solar boat. The figure has a small aroused cobra, the royal uraeus, on its front, identifying him as a royal figure. Combined, these two elements specify that the sun god is ‘a good lord’

Scarab with Blessing Related to Amun (Amun-Re), Faience

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Scarab with Blessing Related to Amun (Amun-Re), Faience
Scarab with Blessing Related to Amun (Amun-Re), Faience
Scarab with Blessing Related to Amun (Amun-Re), Faience
Scarab with Blessing Related to Amun (Amun-Re), Faience

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