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A mouldmade faience scarab with five lines of text on the base. There is a single pierced hole through the centre. There are traces of resin in the inscription. The pencil mark on the back of the scarab reads SAK (perhaps Saqqara) and XXII (perhaps a reference to Dynasty 22) and there is a second ink mark reading GWF 1891. This is a reference to the collection that the object belonged to before it came into the museum. The red star and number 778 are also a reference to the catalogue of the its former owner E.T. Whyte.
Length: 0.075 m
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1932) by Whyte, Edward Towry
Glazed : Mouldmade
Accession number: E.134.1932
Primary reference Number: 52866
Oldadmincategory: SC
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Heart scarab" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/52866 Accessed: 2025-06-25 03:58:23
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