Scarab
This ancient Egyptian heart scarab has a spell from the Book of the Dead written on its underside. It would have been wrapped into the bandages of a mummy near the heart.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 45/1933/1
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Material
- stone
- Common Name
- scarab
- Simple Name
- scarab
- Period Classification
- New Kingdom (Dynasties 18-20) - 1650-1070 BC; 3rd Intermediate Period (Dynasties 21-25) - 1070-661 BC
- Production Year Low
- -1500
- Production Year High
- -500
