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Steaite scarab
Steatite scarab with 8 lines of text. There are traces of resin on the surface and part of the object is missing. It is not known when the object came into the museum because it was identified as a forgery and not registered until 2011. We therefore know nothing about its provanance.
Accession number: E.SC.330
Primary reference Number: 183598
Oldadmincategory: SC
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Steaite scarab" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/183598 Accessed: 2024-04-25 13:51:27
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/183598
|title=Steaite scarab
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-25 13:51:27|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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/objects/object-183598
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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