Heart Scarab

E11013

From: Egypt | Nubia | Aniba

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

Object Number E11013
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Nubia | Aniba
Locus An 17
Period New Kingdom | Eighteenth Dynasty
Date Made 1539- 1292 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Stone | Pigment
Inscription Language Hieroglyphic
Description

Slate-like stone with painted red inscription of the owner's name on the thorax. On underside 10 incised lines containing a confused version of Chapter 30 of Naville, Totenbuch. Good workmanship, perfectly preserved.

Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Junior Expedition to Nubia, Aniba; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1911

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