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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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 Cross-Tradition Connections
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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."
This source names Canaanites directly: "A small faience scarab, ca."
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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.
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