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PROPERTY FROM THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND

AN EGYPTIAN BASALT SCARAB
NEW KINGDOM, 19TH DYNASTY, REIGN OF RAMESSES II, 1279-1213 B.C.
2 ⅛ in. (5.4 cm.) high

PROVENANCE
Reportedly from the Mnevis cemetery at Heliopolis.
with Elie A. Abemayor, Cairo.
Caroline Ransom Williams (1872-1952), Toledo, acquired from the above, 1927.
Henry W. Wilhelm, Toledo, acquired from the above and gifted to The Toledo Museum of Art, 1927 (Accession no. 1927.72).
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