Faience scarab with modelled carapace and legs folded to the side of the body; pierced for suspension. To the underside is a striding lion, symbolising the pharaoh, on top of the prostrate body of a male figure, one of the foes of Egypt. To the front is a stylised group of papyrus and lotus flowers symbolising the land of Egypt. New Kingdom, 18^th dynasty, 1550 – 1292 BC, 20mm in length.

For similar see The Los Angeles County Museum, accession number 50.4.5.4

Provenance: Purchased during the Second World War by Major G.A.D Gordon (Royal Army Medical Corps) from Sayad Molattam, a dealer in antiquities based at Luxor Hotel Street. Mr Gordon's personal war diaries, which are now held in the Museum of Military Medicine in Aldershot, date his stay in Luxor from the 21st of February to the 1st of March 1942.