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Drawing of a Hyksos scarab depicting an ancient Egyptian pharaoh as a Near-Eastern weather god (or vice versa). The pharaoh is wearing the Red Crown of Lower Egypt. Steatite, from Tell el-Dab'a (ancient Avaris), presumably datable to the late Second Intermediate Period of Egypt. After Keel, "Ein weiterer Skarabäus mit einer Nilpferdjagd, die Ikonographie der sogenannten Beamtenskarabäen und der ägyptische König auf Skarabäen vor dem Neuen Reich",
Ägypten und Levante
, 6 (1996), p. 135, fig. 24a.
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| Author | Khruner |
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