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Scarab Inscribed with a Crouching Ibex

Unknown Artist
The base of this scarab is decorated with the image of an Ibix lying down among plants.

Credit: Rogers Fund, 1911
c. 1390-1353 B.C.
Steatite
0.6in
11.215.17
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020

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