This paper presents an Egyptian and an Egyptian-style amulet, recently excavated in tombs in the Jebel Qurma uplands in the Black Desert of northeastern Jordan. The amulets (a pataikos and a scarab) date to the early to mid-1st millennium BCE. It is extremely rare to find such objects in this remote part of the southern…
The Multispectral Portable Light Dome: Documenting the Egyptian Execration Figurines of the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels
The Middle Bronze Age “Green Jasper Seal Workshop”: New Evidence from the Levant and Egypt
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Late Bronze Age Cornelian and Red Jasper Scarabs with Cross Designs. Egyptian, Levantine or Minoan?
This contribution reassesses the date and origin of a particular group of cornelian and red jasper scarabs, displaying line designs such as crosses and stars on their bases. The numbers that surfaced in the southern Levant and the Aegean have led scholars to attribute them to Ramesside Egyptian, Late Bronze Age IIB/III Palestinian, or even…