Vintage Ancient Egyptian Heart Scarab, Hand Carved Black Basalt Rock, Medinet Habu - Upper Egypt 21 mm

VINTAGE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HEART SCARAB

CARVED BLACK BASALT ROCK.

FASCINATING AMULET, VERY PRECISE CARVING

THE AMULET IS PERSONALIZED ON THE BACK WITH HIEROGLYPHIC THIS TYPE OF SCARABS WERE CALLED THE HEART SCARABS, THEY WERE SPECIFICALLY CREATED TO PROTECT THE HEART

ACTUAL PHOTOS OF THE SCARAB ARE PROVIDED

PLACE OF ORIGIN: EGYPT

DATE: ACQUIRED IN 1961 FROM MEDINET HABU, WEST BANK OF LUXOR, UPPER EGYPT

*MEDINET HABU, Located on the West Bank of Luxor, Medinet Habu is a huge temple complex second only to Karnak in size and better preserved. Pharaohs Hatshepsut and Tutmosis III built a small temple dedicated to Amun on the site. Next to their temple, Ramesses III built his mortuary temple, Medinet Habu’s largest standing monument. Ramesses III then enclosed both structures within a massive mud-brick wall that included storehouses, workshops, and residences.

EXACT AGE IS NOT DETERMINED

IT'S GUARANTEED THAT THIS AMULET IS 50 YEARS OLD OR OLDER

DIMENSIONS: 21 mm LONG - 15.5 mm WIDE - 6.5 mm DEEP

CONDITION: GREAT CONDITION, INTACT

NOT HOLED

Scarabs were popular amulets in ancient Egypt. According to ancient Egyptian myths, the sun (Ra) rolls across the sky each day and transforms bodies and souls. the scarab was seen as an earthly symbol of this heavenly cycle. This came to be iconographic, and ideological symbols were incorporated into ancient Egyptian society.

To the ancient Egyptians, the scarab or dung beetle was a protector and a symbol of the new brighter day ahead

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