Description (Labels & Markings)
A yellow, hand written label affixed with string reads '74' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
The underside of the mount is marked '775' in red pencil.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
A small, yellow, oval, typed label adhered to the top of the mount reads '775' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Other owners)
The small yellow label adhered to the top of the mount indicates this scarab was once in the collection of Lady Valerie Meux.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
The underside of the mount is marked with a jumble of digits '1608/26', '5' and '26' all in pencil, the '26' has also been circled.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Budge, E.A Wallis. (1896). Some Account of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities in the Possession of Lady Meux. Harrison and Son: London. p. 260. no. 775.
Event Date 1896
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Auction / Sale)
The Acworths could possibly have bought the scarab through the Lady Meux Sale in London in May 1911 under Waring and Gillow, Ltd (Auctioneers), or possibly through a third party.
Event Date 5/1911
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Forty scaraboids of glazed composition and steatite showing a wide variety of designs and inscriptions.
Event Date 1948
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
20 scaraboids of faience or steatite with various designs or inscriptions.
Event Date 30/5/2018
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
A small green glazed cowroid with suspension hole. The underside is inscribed with a floral motif and two pairs of rearing cobras, uraei.
Event Date 16/4/2020
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Amendments / updates)
Budge (1896) notes that the scarab was from Abydos. This has been added to the Place field.
Event Date 16/4/2020
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson