scarab, cartouche, Mencheperre, Amon, uraeus, The seal has the shape of a stylized scarab with a cartouche on its back with presumably the name of Thutmose III: Men-cheper-re. The rest of the back shows no further detail, just like the head with clypeus. The beetle is separated from the sealing surface by a horizontal groove in both sides. In the oval seal plane, the goddess name Amon-Re seems to have been carved between a uraeus hose left and right that may replace the missing reed leaf for the sound value i as is customary in cryptography. The object is perforated lengthwise, seal, scarab
scarab, cartouche, Mencheperre, Amon, uraeus, The seal has the shape of a stylized scarab with a cartouche on its back with presumably the name of Thutmose III: Men-cheper-re. The rest of the back shows no further detail, just like the head with clypeus. The beetle is separated from the sealing surface by a horizontal groove in both sides. In the oval seal plane, the goddess name Amon-Re seems to have been carved between a uraeus hose left and right that may replace the missing reed leaf for the sound value i as is customary in cryptography. The object is perforated lengthwise, seal, scarab, beige steatite with minute traces of a green glaze layer ?, 1,6 × 1,1 × 0,6 cm, New Empire, 18th Dynasty, Thutmose III (?), Egypt
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