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scarab, winged
Painted wooden scarab beetle with wings. Possibly from a coffin. Damaged. Originally part of the Rustafjaell collection purchased by Wellcome. The scarab beetle IS NOT the flesh-eating monster shown in the film 'The Mummy'! It eats dung. The beetle can be seen in the desert rolling a ball of animal dung into its underground home. The Egyptians compared this to the rolling of the sun-disc across th…
Type d'item
- scarab, winged
Type d'item
- scarab, winged
Institution partenaire
Agrégateur
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- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Identificateur
- EC300
Pays fournisseur
- United Kingdom
Nom de la collection
Première publication sur Europeana
- 2015-01-27T15:05:35.863Z
Dernière mise à jour de l'Institution partenaire
- 2016-07-12T18:15:03.813Z