CNG 108, Lot: 1241. Estimate $400. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Green jasper scarab. Southern Levant, circa 1720-1600 BC. A well-carved scarab with uncertain inscription on face containing im n h’r (possibly the name “Imenher”). Pierced for suspension. Some scratches on face, otherwise intact and attractive. Dimensions: 16x12mm.

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

More than likely from the so-called “green jasper workshop,” suspected to have been in Byblos. For discussion, see D. Collon, “The green jasper cylinder seal workshop,” Insight through images: studies in honor of Edith Porada (1986), pp. 57-70, and O. Keel, “Cylinder and stamp seals in the Southern Levant between 1800 and 1500 BC,” The Iconography of Cylinder Seals, Warburg Institute Colloquia 9 (2006), pp. 62-81.