Description (Labels & Markings)
A white, hand written label affixed with string reads '742' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
A display label affixed with pins to the mount reads 'THOTHMES III' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
The underside of the mount is marked '714' in red ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
A small, yellow, oval, hand written label adhered to the underside of the mount reads '425' 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)
A yellow, hand written label affixed with string reads '175' in black ink.
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. 234. no. 583.
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 the auctioneers Sothebys, Wilkinson and Hodge, or possibly through a third party.
Event Date 5/1911
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Seven large blue green glazed composition and steatite scarabs of TOTHMES III
Event Date 1948
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 29/5/2020
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
A dark green glazed scarab with suspension hole. The underside is inscribed hieroglyphs and the pharaoh (presumably Tuthmosis III) smiting an enemy.
Event Date 29/5/2020
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson