Glazed steatite scarab
Glazed steatite scarab, inscribed on the base with a scarab beetle and sun disk inside rope pattern border. This type of border was typical of the Second Intermediate Period, however, it was sometimes copied in the New Kingdom.
Length: 0.016 m
Accession number: E.SC.287
Primary reference Number: 65024
Oldadmincategory: SC
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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