Scarab seal and modern impression: Osiris flanked by protective deities, Iron Age, ca. 6th–5th century B.C., Levant or Syria, Jasper, green, Seal Face: 1.87 x 1.39 cm, Stone-Stamp Seals, Around the beginning of the first millennium B.C., Phoenician seal engravers adopted the use of the scarab, an Egyptian symbol of regeneration. In typical Phoenician fashion, the seals were decorated with Egyptian motifs that are juxtaposed out of context, sometimes with non-Egyptian animal subjects
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Scarab seal, modern impression, Osiris flanked, protective deities, Iron Age, ca, 6th–5th century B.C, Levant, Syria, Jasper, green, Seal Face, 1.87 x 1.39 cm, Stone-Stamp Seals, Around, first millennium, Phoenician, engravers, adopted, scarab, Egyptian symbol, regeneration, typical Phoenician, fashion, seals, decorated, motifs, juxtaposed out, context, sometimes, non-Egyptian animal, subjects
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