Meretefer, Chief Store Keeper

381, Lot: 610. Estimate $200. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

New Kingdom. Circa 1550-1070 BC. Steatite scarab (24x18mm). On face, “the chief store keeper, Meretefer, repeating life” surrounded by linear coil-pattern border. A few surface cracks. Chipped in areas. Pierced. Ranke I p. 159, name 17.

From the Carl Devries Collection.