IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 52186 accession number: E.159.1921 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Faience (glazed) scarab beetle. On the underside are three signs: a maat-feather representing justice, a nefer sign meaning beauty and a uraeus (cobra) which was associated with royalty or gods and offered protection. This scarab was found in the same grave as E.157.1921; E.160-161.1921. object type: Glazed scarab inscribed, with maat-feather, nefer sign and uraeus. title: scarab LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/52186 TECHNIQUES ---------- mouldmade CATEGORIES ------ category: scarab DATING ------ creation date: 701 - 601 creation date earliest: 701 creation date latest: 601 culture: Meroitic culture: Third Intermediate period DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: m value: 0.0135 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_159_2C160_2C161_1921_20_281_29.jpg height: 351 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/mid_E_159_2C160_2C161_1921_20_281_29.jpg height: 231 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_159_2C160_2C161_1921_20_281_29.jpg height: 351 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/preview_E_159_2C160_2C161_1921_20_281_29.jpg height: 115 pixels width: 249 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_159_2C160_2C161_1921_20_282_29.jpg height: 364 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/mid_E_159_2C160_2C161_1921_20_282_29.jpg height: 239 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_159_2C160_2C161_1921_20_282_29.jpg height: 364 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/preview_E_159_2C160_2C161_1921_20_282_29.jpg height: 120 pixels width: 250 pixels