Scarab

Object specifics

• Type
  Personal Object
• Culture
  Third Intermediate Period
• Artist/Maker
  Unknown or unrecorded
• Place made
  Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt: Kafr Ammar
• Date made
  1000 BC - 600 BC about
• Materials
  Egyptian Faience
• Location
  Item not currently on display
• Acquisition
  Transferred from Gilstrap Public Library and Municipal Museum, 1952
• Collector
  British School of Archaeology in Egypt
• Place collected
  Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt: Kafr Ammar
• Date collected
  1911 - 1913
• Measurements
  6 mm x 10 cm x 12 cm
• Note
  W.M.Flinders Petrie, Ernest Mackay. Heliopolis, Kafr Ammar and Shurafa, (London, 1915, British School of Archaeology in Egypt); The Gilstrap collection was formed by Miss Gilstrap, who contributed funds to the British School of Archaeology in Egypt between 1900 and 1910. She was given a share of the excavated finds in return for the funding she provided.
• Related people
  British School of Archaeology in Egypt (Collector, previous owner); Gilstrap Public Library and Municipal Museum (Previous owner); Josephine Elizabeth Gilstrap (Previous owner)