Scarab

Lower part of a scarab (elytra) made from beeswax with trace of gilding. CONDITION NOTE 1998: Surface cracking and splitting, surface dirt. Gatty Slip (1873): Piece of wax, curiously shaped & gilded - ancient Egyptian - wrapped up with the embalmed bodies or parts of bodies - vide Dr Birch in E. Rooms of B.M. no 74 p. 105.