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Description: | ; Date(s): -332 - -30; Classification(s): scarab, scarab, mouldmade; Acquisition: bequeathed by Whyte, Edward Towry, 1932 [E.133.1932]
Description: with wings (separate), pierced. The Egyptian word for a dung beetle means 'coming into being'. It was used to symbolise rebirth into the afterlife. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | scarab | Temporal: | name=Ptolemaic; start=-332; end=-30 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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