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Ptolemaic Period
Large scarabs and their separately molded wings were made with holes to be sewn to mummy wrappings or worked into bead nets. They would then lie over the chest of the mummy. The type is known from Dynasty 25 onward.
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Title: Winged scarab
Period: Ptolemaic Period
Date: 332–30 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt
Medium: Faience
Dimensions: Scarab: L. 3.5 × W. 2.6 × H. 1.4 cm (1 3/8 × 1 × 9/16 in.); Wings: L. 4.9 × W. 2.6 × Th. 0.6 cm (1 15/16 × 1 × 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
Object Number: 30.8.1084a–c
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