Schist scarab
Schist(?) scarab with traces of gold leaf. Photograph: yes.
Details
- ID
- EMC_JE_87947
- Alternate IDs
- JE_87947; EMC_JE_87947; SH_exc_1061; exc_1061; EMC_SR_4/4878; SR_4/4878
- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Scarabs and scaraboids
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Title
- Schist scarab
- Medium
- Schist? and gold leaf
- Dimensions
- 4.5 x 3.4 cm
- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Provenance
- Found in wrappings of later mummy buried in sand E of G 8674
- Bibliography
- Hassan, Giza 5, p. 316, pl. LXX B
- Notes
- From excavations of Selim Hassan, 1934.
- Remarks
- RELATED MEDIA: EMC_JE_XVII_Sp176LR; RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Selim Hassan; RELATED SITE(S): G 8674; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): SH_exc_1061