IDENTIFIERS
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id:	49559
accession number:	E.18.1898

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 14 May 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Faience figure in the form of a scorpion. Possibly a reference to the Scorpion King, who ruled Egypt before Narmer- the first king of Egypt whose name that we know. These animals are both dangerous and protectors. In this royal context they were no doubt the latter. Faience is a glazed material that was mouldmade. It was commonly used in ancient Egypt.
title:	figurine

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/49559





TECHNIQUES
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mouldmade

CATEGORIES
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category: figure

DATING
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creation date:	3000 - 2500
creation date earliest:	3000
creation date latest:	2500
culture:	Predynastic
culture:	Early Dynastic Period

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 4.7

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 7



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience
CITATIONS
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Gifts of the Nile : ancient Egyptian faience
Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Hierakonpolis II
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