393, Lot: 805. Estimate $400. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Blue glazed steatite scarab. Egypt, Late Period, 664-332 BC. Face engraved with winged Isis standing right before a solar disk and a cartouche containing r’nfr, or “may beauty exist”; below, the hieroglyph n’b or “lord” (14x10mm). Crack down center with some very minor loss of material on back.

Ex Christie’s London ‘Fine Antiquities,’ 10 July 1991, lot 85 (part of).