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Scarab amulet

Scarab amulet
Bone amulet in the shape of a beetle made from bone.

It is oval and very small. There is a T indent for the wings on the upper side and relief wings on the side. The head of the scarab is stylized. On the bottom surface, there are hieroglyphs. There is a perforation for the amulet string on the middle of the body, from head to bottom.

Catalogue entry

Scarab made from bone
Museum of Slavonia, Osijek
Inv. no. MSO AA-1606
unknown site
Late period (664-332 B.C.)
bone
1.1 x 0.8 x 0.5 cm
donation, Karlo Franjo Nuber

Resources

  • Kovač, Marina. „Egyptian Collection of the Museum of Slavonia in Osijek (Croatia)“. U: Tomorad, Mladen (ur.). A History of Research into Ancient Egyptian Culture conducted in Southeast Europe. Oxford, 2015: 93-105. no. 6, 98-99, fig. 106.
  • Kovač, Marina. Ulaznica za drugi svijet. Egipatska zbirka Muzeja Slavonije - Ticket to the Afterlife. Egyptian collection of the Museum of Slavonia. Osijek, 2013. no. 12, 44-45.
  • Tomorad, Mladen. „The Ancient Egyptian Antiquities in Institutional and Private Collections in Croatia“. U: Tomorad, Mladen (ur.). A History of Research into Ancient Egyptian Culture conducted in Southeast Europe. Oxford, 2015: 31-58. 49.
  • Tomorad, Mladen. „The Ancient Egyptian Collections in Croatia and the Project Croato-Aegyptica Electronica“. U: Derriks, Claire (ur.). Collections at risk: New Challenges in a New Environment - Proceedings of the 29th CIPEG Annual Meeting in Brussels, September 25-28, 2012, Royal Museums of Art and History Brussels, Belgium. Atlanta, 2017: 237-268. 256.
  • Tomorad, Mladen. Staroegipatska civilizacija, sv. II: Uvod u egiptološke studije. Zagreb, 2017. 83.

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