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Heart Scarab   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anonymous (Egypt)Unknown author
Title
Heart Scarab
Description
English: This serpentine scarab has a flat underside with a vertically arranged inscription with the text from spell 30B of the "Book of the Dead." The back of the scarab has a detailed design with a polished surface and almost balanced proportions. The workmanship is good and the piece is carefully made. This scarab functioned as an independent, user individualized funerary amulet with a renewal connotation and supportive function for the deceased in the Court of the Dead.
Date between 1070 and 736 BC (Third Intermediate)
Medium black-brown serpentine
Dimensions length: 6.3 cm (2.4 in); height: 2.7 cm (1 in); width: 4.4 cm (1.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2043,6.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2048,2.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,4.4U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
42.81
Place of creation Egypt
Object history
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters
Inscriptions [Translation] Recitation of Osiris: (the) head of beverages depot, Pa-en-Ptah: / Heart (that I received) from my mother, heart (that I received) from my mother, heart of my (different) ages, do not stand up against / me as witness; do not contradict me in the court; do nothing against me in front of the deities; / do not treat me with hostility in front of the Keeper of the Balance. You are my Ka (life-force), which is in my body; the creator, / who makes the limbs of my body whole; you may come out to the beautiful place, which is there prepared for me. Do not cause my name / to stink in the presence of the members of the court, who make people to resurrected (at) the beautiful place. Excellent is it for the posers; a pleasure is it / for the judge. Do not speak lies against me beside the great god. / See, you are elected to exist (as a justified one).
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