Scarab with New Year's wish
Unknown Artist
The hieroglyphs and motifs engraved on the base of this scarab express a wish for the New Year. The inscription calls upon the sun god, referred to here by the image of the solar barque, to make every day of the New Year good.
Credit: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910
c. 1070-664 B.C.
Faience
0.8 x 0.6 x 0.4 in
10.130.632
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020
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