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5953. **SOLD** Scarab protection for pregnant woman
5953. **SOLD** Scarab protection for pregnant woman 5953. **SOLD** Scarab protection for pregnant woman 5953. **SOLD** Scarab protection for pregnant woman 5953. **SOLD** Scarab protection for pregnant woman
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A nice scarab which might well have been worn on a thread around the wrist by a pregnant woman.

Shows the goddess Taweret, part female hippo, part crocodile,  who was amongst other things the  protector of pregnant women.

One of her names was 'Lady of the birth house'

She was a household goddess and had no special cult centre.

She  was a very fierce  goddess and here is shown holding a large knife.

The sign in front of her is the Gardiner sign V17, the rolled up herdsman papyrus shelter which is the ideogram  for “protection”. 

Intact.

12mm

New Kingdom

Ex Gustav Moustaki collection : his enormous and diverse collection of antiquities was formed in Alexandria during the second quarter of the twentieth century and was legally exported from Egypt in 1949. The collection has subsequently been disbursed by sale by his heirs



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