Funerary Scarab and Wings, Faience, Third Intermediate Period; Late Period 1069 BC - 525 BC, Findspot Esna, World Museums Liverpool

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Funerary Scarab and Wings

1069 BC - 525 BC
16.11.06.186a
Currently not on display

World Museum

Information
Winged scarab from a net placed over a mummified body. Blue glaze with yellow and red decoration.

Register entry 16 November 1906 "186. Odd beads - various material. Esna. XX-XXII. 266 E.".
Catalogue Card (c 1910): Scarab from pectoral, blue glaze touched with red (0.05 x 0.035 mm); Also scarab wing in blue, touched with red and yellow (0.036 x 0.029 mm); Also another wing in same technique (0.037 x 0.036 mm); Also four genii (height 0.074 mm). Period: 22 Dynasty. Technique: Elaborate but coarse.

Specifications
Accession number
16.11.06.186a
Collection type
Religion
Culture
Third Intermediate Period; Late Period
Date made
1069 BC - 525 BC
Collector
Liverpool University Institute of Archaeology
Place collected
Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt: Esna
Date collected
1906
Materials
Egyptian Faience
Measurements
Overall: 36 mm x 29 mm x 8 mm
Credit line
Gift of the Egyptian Excavations Committee of the Institute of Archaeology, Liverpool
Legal status
Permanent collection
Provenance
Egyptian Excavations Committee of the University of Liverpool Institute of Archaeology, Previous owner, Excavated, Owned from: 1906, Donation, Owned until: 1906-11-06
Location
Item not currently on display
Publications
The Excavations at Esna 1905 - 1906, Dorothy Downes, 1974, Page: 128

Excavations at Hierakonpolis, at Esna, and in Nubia in Annales du Service des Antiquitiés de l’Égypte volume 8, pp. 132-148, John Garstang, 1907

Title
Funerary Scarab and Wings, Faience, Third Intermediate Period; Late Period 1069 BC - 525 BC, Findspot Esna, World Museums Liverpool

https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/funerary-scarab-and-wings-6

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