Egyptian Green-Glazed Steatite Ram-Headed Scaraboid

A beautiful, green-glazed steatite Egyptian scaraboid amulet, in the form of a recumbent ram, with hieroglyphs to its reverse. The ram is depicted recumbent, it’s stylised head resting on its front legs. The curves of the animal’s horns rise up in relief, whilst incised lines decorate it’s body. The soft brown hardstone has been glazed in a dark turquoise. The reverse features a neat and clearly inscribed composition of hieroglyphs. To the top is a sun disc, sitting above the ‘mn’ draughtboard sign 𓏠, followed by a ‘n’ water ripple 𓈖. To the right of these three signs is a large, elongated feather. Together,  these are transliterated as ‘a-mn-n’ and, with the sun-disc, form the name of the god Amun-Ra. The remaining hieroglyphs form the epithet ‘Lord of the two lands’. The ‘nb’ basket signs is translated as ‘Lord’, whilst the two linear signs refer to the ‘two lands’. The scaraboid is pierced for suspension.