EGYPTIAN HARDSTONE SCARAB Late Period, Ca. 664 - 30 BC. A dark hardstone scarab with lateral notches, and linear wing-case demarcations. The flat underside is engraved with three vertical columns of finely cut pseudo-hieroglyphs, separated by double borders and arranged in neat alignment. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 26.7.259. Size: 15.3mm x 11.7mm; Weight: 3.53g Provenance: Private London collection, acquired on the German art market, in the 1990s.