IDENTIFIERS
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id:	50852
accession number:	E.27.1904

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 21 June 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: This large scarab is naturally designed and nearly without damages except two tiny ones on each side of the base. A single rolling line forms the partition of elytra and protorax, as well as a single line divides the elytra and forms the suture. The humeral callosities are shown the left one is abraded. The head is trapezoidal, eyes are clearly indicated. The clypeus is large and well defined with four lobes. The legs are modeled in high relief, plain, highly arched and meet shortly before the junction of elytra and protorax. The scarab is sitting on a base (0.002m).
object type: Faience scarab inscribed, with hieroglyphic signs on the base. At the top is an image of a hawk representing Horus and below are two leopard heads reading 'strength'. The scarab is pierced through the centre. It is mouldmade.
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/50852





TECHNIQUES
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mouldmade

CATEGORIES
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category: scarab

DATING
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culture:	Third Intermediate period


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: m
value: 0.015

dimension: Length
units: m
value: 0.032

dimension: Width
units: m
value: 0.023



CITATIONS
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Fitzwilliam Museum McClean Bequest: Catalogue of the mediaeval ivories, enamels, jewellery, gems and miscellaneous objects bequeathed to the Museum by Frank McClean, M.A., F.R.S.
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