Scarab with Coil and Scrolls Design

Scarab with Coil and Scrolls Design

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Designs with twirling continuous lines and coils, sometimes forming complicated woven patterns, appear on scarabs in the early Middle Kingdom and became very popular in late Dynasty 12–Dynasty 13 (ca. 1850–1640 B.C.). On this late Middle Kingdom scarab, the coils are combined with scrolls.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.