287, Lot: 849. Estimate $250. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Second Intermediate Period. Circa 1650-1550. Steatite scarab (17x11mm). Back is carved into a crisscross pattern, suggestive of a hedgehog, the base engraved with a solar boat, a sphinx, and men and neb signs. Intact but for a small chip at base, once glazed, pierced for mounting.

From the Dr. John N. Winnie Collection.