Mummy Scarab
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
Ptolemaic Period (350-1 BCE)
Gold sheet
Overall: 5/16 × 1 × 13/16 in. (0.8 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Class of 1962
990.15.27081
Geography
Place Made: Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Funerary Equipment
Research Area
Ancient Egypt
Africa
Not on view
Inscriptions
Base, legend stamped: “Menkheperre,” flanked by uraeii
Course History
ANTH 12.5, Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Virginia Herrmann, Winter 2014
ANTH 12.5, Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Virginia Herrmann, Winter 2014
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman - INDEPENDENT VIEWING, Fall 2019
Classical Studies 12.02, Greek and Roman Engineering and Technology, Margaretha Kramer, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth, Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12, 2011-August 13, 2012.
The Age of the Marvelous, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 21-November 24, 1991; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 25-March 22, 1992; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, May 24-August 25, 1992; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, October 6, 1992-January 3, 1993, naturalia no. n156.
Provenance
Numismatic Fine Arts, Inc. Auction III, Item 14, February 1978; Harmer Rooke Numismatists, Ltd, New York, 1982; Virginia Williamson, 1982-1990; given to present collection, 1990.
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