EGYPTIAN STEATITE SCARAB WITH KNOT MOTIF. Middle Kingdom, Ca. 2055 - 1790 BC. A steatite scarab with the base engraved with a symmetrical knot motif of four looped arms around a central shaft, enclosed by a single line border. The ovoid back shows a pronounced triangular clypeus, a straight transverse line for the pronotum, and a median and lateral divisions of the elytra. For similar see: Christie's, Live Auction 9723, Antiquities, including an Ancient Private Collection of, Lot 192. Size: 13mm x 9mm; Weight: 0.6g Provenance: Property of a London gallery; previously in a collection of a North London gentleman; formerly in a collection of Mrs B. Ellison, a deceased former member of the Egyptian Exploration Fund, bought from the 1940s, Cairo and London.