Egyptian scarab, inscribed, with falcon holding flail and neb-sign

An image of Scarab. Inscribed, with falcon holding flail and neb-sign. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Sedment, Egypt. Stone, either carnelian or glazed steatite, length 1.3 cm, 1479-1425 B.C. Eighteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom.

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Scarab. Inscribed, with falcon holding flail and neb-sign. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Sedment, Egypt. Stone, either carnelian or glazed steatite, length 1.3 cm, 1479-1425 B.C. Eighteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom.

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Accession Number: E.23.1921
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1365 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 207.35kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2010:04:26 21:04:57

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15th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd Ancient Egypt antiquity BC beetles carnelian carved cornelian Egyptian falcon Fitz_ANT inscribed inscriptions insects New Kingdom scarab scarab beetle Sedment skarabs soapstone steatite stone

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