IDENTIFIERS
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id:	64798
accession number:	E.SC.59

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 10 June 2026

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Glazed steatite scarab, inscribed on the base with a sharp-nosed fish. This particular fish was important in Egyptian mythology because it was believed to have been the fish that ate the penis of Osiris, following his dismemberment by his brother Seth. Oxyrhynchus, a Roman city, took its name from the fish.
title:	scarab

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/64798





TECHNIQUES
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carved
TECHNIQUES
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glazed

CATEGORIES
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category: scarab

DATING
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culture:	New Kingdom
culture:	Eighteenth Dynasty


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: m
value: 0.015



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Egyptian collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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