Winged scarab

Winged scarabs are mainly large faience funerary amulets, sewed on the chest of mummies’ bandages. Most are of Dynasty 26 onwards¹

Blue glaze W 11.2, H 3.3 Dynasty 19-25 Brooklyn Museum #15.523

Glass (scarab) and gilded stucoed fabric (wings) W 24.0, H 6.2, T 1.5 Late Period © 2014 Musée du Louvre/Benjamin Soligny #E 6254

Reference

¹Andrews C. Amulets of Ancient Egypt, 1994, p. 59, Front cover and Fig. 58a