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Someone sent these pics to me asking......

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First of all the surface (which does not look like ancient steatite) looks too clean and the cutting style is definitely wrong.

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It is however a fairly good copy of a known scarab . Of this person.  Pretty famous really.  Queen Tiye, The Great Royal wife  the wife of the king Amenhotep III.

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Or as she looks now...........

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These scarabs could have been used to copy from?

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Most of Tiye's scarabs are not as well done as that.