IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 53043 accession number: E.309.1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Limestone painted heart scarab in the form of the ib (heart) sign and with a human head. The front of the object has a scarab beetle, wings and ankh sings carved; the back is undecorated, but rounded. The face is damaged or roughly carved. The subject wears a tri-partite wig that is coloured black. There are further traces of black and red pigment on the body and the face is coloured brown. title: heart 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/53043 TECHNIQUES ---------- painted TECHNIQUES ---------- carved CATEGORIES ------ category: scarab DATING ------ creation date: 101 - 100 creation date earliest: 101 creation date latest: 100 culture: late Ptolemaic culture: Early Roman DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: m value: 0.073