scarab
- Museum number
- 103268
- Description
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Glazed(?) white steatite scarab: engraved on the base with the symbol of Bat, the goddess connected with Hathor, flanked by two indeterminate signs, a long rectangular sign ('mn'?) below, 'nb' signs on either side. Hole pierced through longitudinally. Edges chipped. Deposit.
- Dimensions
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Length: 14 millimetres
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Width: 9 millimetres
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Depth: 6 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For Bat see W Helck, 'Lexikon der Ägyptologie' I, Wiesbaden 1914 col. 630-632 and H G Fischer, 'The Cult and Nome of the Goddess Bat' JARCE 1 (1962) pp. 7-18. Cf. Grenfell, 'Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes' 37 (1915) Pl. II 40.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair; edges chipped; deposit.
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 103268
- Registration number
- 1865,0724.16