IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 53330 accession number: E.49.1934 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A faience scarab, mouldmade and uninscribed. The scarab us pierced 5 times, to allow it to be fixed to another object. In addition to the blue glaze there is an additional coating, possibly of wax, which gives the object a patchy brown appearance. This size and number of piercings suggest that this scarab had wings attached and was therefore a heart scarab, or decorative element on a mummy shroud. Its function would have been funerary. title: winged scarab LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/53330 TECHNIQUES ---------- coated TECHNIQUES ---------- mouldmade TECHNIQUES ---------- glazed CATEGORIES ------ category: scarab DATING ------ culture: Third Intermediate period culture: Late Period DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: m value: 0.04 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/680/651/large_E_49_1934_1_201006_mfj2_mas.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/680/651/mid_E_49_1934_1_201006_mfj2_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/E.49.1934_1_201006_mfj2_mas.JPG surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/680/651/preview_E_49_1934_1_201006_mfj2_mas.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/680/651/E_49_1934_1_201006_mfj2_mas.ptif height: 2912 pixels width: 4368 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/680/652/large_E_49_1934_2_201006_mfj2_mas.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/680/652/mid_E_49_1934_2_201006_mfj2_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/E.49.1934_2_201006_mfj2_mas.JPG surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/680/652/preview_E_49_1934_2_201006_mfj2_mas.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/680/652/E_49_1934_2_201006_mfj2_mas.ptif height: 2912 pixels width: 4368 pixels