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Title:

Faience winged scarab

Category:

scarab

Name(s):

winged scarab; type
funerary; group

Period:

Third Intermediate period

Description:

Mouldmade faience scarab made in three parts: the body, and 2 wings. winged, with two separate wings, all three pieces pierced around edges; the scarab has 6 holes and the wings 3 holes each. These holes would have been used to tie the object together. The underside of the wings has a linen imprint.

Production
Place:

Egypt

Production
Place (legacy):

Egypt, production, country

Find Spot:

Thebes Egypt

Technique:

mouldmade

Material:

faience

Dimension:

width, 0.14, m

Acquisition:

given; 1890; Rev. Greville Chester

Documentation:

Budge, E.A. Wallis. 1893. Catalogue of the Egyptian collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
no.306

Accession:

Object Number: E.SC.4
(Antiquities)
(record id: 49201; input: 2003-03-25; modified: 2012-01-10)

Permanent
Identifier:

http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/49201





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