Winged scarab
- Accession Number
- EC369
- Current Location
- House of Life (first floor), Drawers beneath stelae, Drawer 5
- Object Type
- Scarab, seal, scaraboid, intaglio and similar objects, Scarab, Winged scarab
- Period
- Late Period
- Dynasty
- Twenty-sixth Dynasty
- Material
- Faience
- Provenance
- Egypt
- Measurements
- Length (scarab): 48mm | Width (scarab): 32mm | Length (wings): 32mm | Width (wings): 29mm
- Number of Elements
- 3
- Animal
- Scarab
Licensing details
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- Description
-
A faience scarab beetle with two wings. The wings and scarab have holes for sewing into mummy wrappings. Such items usually date to the Twenty-sixth Dynasty.
- Previous Owner
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Assumed long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Last modified: 19 Jan 2021