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Ostraca of a scarab

General Information

Drawing of the top of a scarab beetle with its body, legs and head competently drawn. A vertical column of hieroglyphs runs down the right side of the ostracon.

Number	35811
Storing Place	Petrie Museum - London - United Kingdom
Material	Limestone
Type	Ostraca
Type of Script	Hieroglyphic
Discovery Place	Deir El-Madinah - Luxor - Egypt
Width	5.3 cm
Height	7.1 cm
Historical Period	The New Kingdom

Inscriptions on the Monument

Text

Transliteration

( If the Hieroglyphic,Demotic or Hieratic text is not appearing clear, install this file )

(nTr) nfr nb t3wy nb ir Xt

Translation

Good (god), lord of the two lands, lord who makes everything.

Scientific Publishing

W. H. Peck, “Review of Ancient Egyptian figured ostraca in the Petrie Collection” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 71, (1985), 14-16.