Scarab with the Name and Title of a Bureaucrat-Bottom

Item Overview

Title

Scarab with the Name and Title of a Bureaucrat-Bottom

Collection

UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE)

Notes

Description

Article: Scarab
Gift of Ruth Greenberg. Photo courtesy of Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Vertical
Carved

Caption

Scarab inscribed with the name and titleof a bureaucrat, “Royal seal bearer and overseer of the seal, Khar (?).” Middle Kingdom to Second Intermediate Period. Steatite with modern browncolor

Physical Description

Medium

Steatite/Soap Stone

Keywords

Genre

Scarab Seal

Scarab
Material Culture, Art and Architecture
Cult Objects

Subject Temporal

Middle Kingdom
Second Intermediate Period

Resource type

still image