scarab

Part of the jewellery and cosmetic items from the burial of a young woman, including this cornelian scarab amulet, a calcite kohl jar and lid, calcite jar, slate palette and grinder, bead strings and a faience and cornelian bead string. Intact burials are rare at all periods,and this group shows the range of personal goods owned by young, upper class women at Abydos in the late Old Kingdom. If the excavator's date is correct, the scarab is one of the earliest known; the form only became common in the late 1st Intermediate Period.
Old Kingdom
Abydos.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002] DUBLIN

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