scarab

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Object Type: scarab
Museum number: EA16578
Description: Steatite scarab, base only, inscribed with a cartouche from which spring the legs and wings of a vulture.
Cultures/periods: 18th Dynasty
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Mit Rahina (Memphis)
Materials: steatite
Dimensions: Height: 0.15 centimetres; Length: 1.70 centimetres; Width: 1.30 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject: royal
Bibliographic references: Hall 1913 / Catalogue of Egyptian scarabs, etc. in the British Museum (474)
Location: Not on display
Condition: fair (incomplete)
Associated names: Named in inscription: Thutmose I
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Signor Luigi Vassalli
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA16578
Registration number: 1856,0814.7
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: BS.3943a (Birch Slip Number)

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