Scarab set into a pair of wings, found on Nakhtefmut's chest

An image of Scarab. Set into a pair of outstretched wings, found on Nakhtefmut's chest. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Ramesseum, Thebes, Egypt. Length 11.9 cm, width 2.4, cm, circa 923 B.C. Twenty-second Dynasty. Third Intermediate period, reign of Osorkon I.

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Scarab. Set into a pair of outstretched wings, found on Nakhtefmut's chest. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Ramesseum, Thebes, Egypt. Length 11.9 cm, width 2.4, cm, circa 923 B.C. Twenty-second Dynasty. Third Intermediate period, reign of Osorkon I.

Image data

Accession Number: E.294.1896
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 430 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 68.66kB
Exposure time: 1/90
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2015:02:26 13:48:36

Key words

10th Century afterlife Ancient Egypt antiquity BC beetles belief Egyptian Fitz_ANT funerary equipment insects metalwork outstretched religion scarab Third Intermediate Period winged wings

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2026)
            "Scarab set into a pair of wings, found on Nakhtefmut's chest"
            Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-82993593 Accessed: 2026-01-04 20:20:10

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-82993593
            |title=Scarab set into a pair of wings, found on Nakhtefmut's chest
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2026-01-04 20:20:10|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/images/media-200810

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant47/E_294_1896_1_201502_jas244_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Scarab"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Scarab set into a pair of wings, found on Nakhtefmut's chest</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>