A small faience scarab, ca. 1300-1080 BCE, showing the Egyptian god Set in his New Kingdom syncretic form as Seth-Baal, identified with the Canaanite storm god, standing atop a lion. Excavated by the Metropolitan Museum in the Lisht North cemetery, Memphite Region, Egypt, 1920-22. Held today by the Museum's Egyptian Art department under accession 22.1.451, Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922.
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Subject Matter
Devotional FunctionScarabs of this type, worn as personal seals or protective amulets, became especially common under the Ramesside pharaohs of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties, when Seth had become something close to a patron war god of the royal house; the identification of Seth with the Canaanite storm god Baal itself reaches back further, to Seth's own worship at Avaris, the Hyksos capital in the eastern Nile Delta. 1 Physical Form
MediumFaience, Dynasty 19-20, New Kingdom, Metropolitan Museum of Art 22.1.451 1 Classification
Object TypeAmulet or Small Carved Object 1 Medium (class) Connections
Associated With
Baal, Deities This source names Baal directly: "his New Kingdom syncretic form as Seth-Baal, identified with the Canaanite storm god, standing atop a lion."
Source Scarab with Figure of Seth-Baal on a Lion, accession 22.1.451 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
This source names Canaanites directly: "A small faience scarab, ca."
Source Scarab with Figure of Seth-Baal on a Lion, accession 22.1.451 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Belongs to Tradition
Source Scarab with Figure of Seth-Baal on a Lion, accession 22.1.451 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Depicts
Set, Figures The Met's own title for this scarab names the god outright as "Seth-Baal," the standard New Kingdom syncretic identification of Set with the Canaanite storm god Baal, a direct scholarly naming rather than a bare thematic tag.
Source Scarab with Figure of Seth-Baal on a Lion, accession 22.1.451 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Originated In
Egypt, Regions Source Scarab with Figure of Seth-Baal on a Lion, accession 22.1.451 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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1. Scarab with Figure of Seth-Baal on a Lion, accession 22.1.451 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of Art- accession 22.1.451
catalogue record, medium/object-type description
A small faience scarab, ca.
Originated In: Egypt, Collection record: culture, country and region fields
Egypt | Memphite Region
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In Group: Egyptian Protective and Apotropaic Deities, the Metropolitan Museum of Art accession record identifies the scarab's subject as Seth-Baal, a protective warrior deityView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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