Scarab
- Accession Number
- EC475
- Current Location
- In storage
- Object Types
- Fakes and replicas, Fakes | Scarab, seal, scaraboid, intaglio and similar objects, Scarab, Heart scarab
- Period
- Modern
- Material
- Stone/minerals
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Measurements
- Length: 49mm | Width: 36mm | Depth: 18mm
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
Licensing details
This image may be used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. For uses not covered under the Creative Commons license, or to license images for commercial uses,
please contact the Egypt Centre.
- Description
-
Green, engraved stone heart scarab. Badly made (lines on back don't meet), and hieroglyphs look false so probably a fake.
- Previous Owner
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Assumed long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Language
- Egyptian
- Script
- Hieroglyphic
