Scarab Incised with Circles and Lotus Flowers

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The underside of the scarab shows a decorative pattern of cicrles, all linked to a circle in the center, together with two large lotus flowers. The back and sides of the scarab are also finely incised and show features that are characteristic for the first half of Dynasty 12.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.

Metropolitan Museum of Art