Scarab seal
Unknown artist
Date: ca. 6th century BCE
Medium: Rock crystal
Dimensions: Seal Face: 1.61 x 1.22 cm Height: 0.87 cm String Hole: 0.2 cm
Classification: Stone-Stamp Seals
Period: Iron Age, Phoenicia (?)
Gift in memory of Miss Marian Hunter Wright, 1942
Date range
-600 – -500
Largest dimension
1.2 cm
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