Heart-scarabs in the transition between the Second Intermediate Period and the early Eighteenth Dynasty: BMFA 72.1346

The heart scarab of king Sobekemsaf in the British Museum is one of the earliest and most familiar examples of heart scarabs, but a long unrecognized parallel to this famous scarab can be found in the collection of the Department of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern Art of the Ancient World Section of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (BMFA 72.1346). The scarab represents an important transitional type in the evolution of the heart-scarab between the end of the Second Intermediate Period and the mid Eighteenth Dynasty.