File:Egyptian - Scarab with Name of Meri - Walters 4249 - Left.jpg
Original file (900 × 405 pixels, file size: 317 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary
[edit]Scarab with Name of Meri ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Artist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Title |
Scarab with Name of Meri |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: This steatite scarab is inscribed on the flat underside with horizontally arranged writing naming an individual and making a statement of social status. The back of the scarab is incised with a very detailed design. The workmanship of the piece is good and it is carefully made.
The scarab functioned as a private name seal, and as a user individualized amulet. It was originally mounted or threaded. The amulet should guarantee constancy of individual existence and social status. Meri was the High priest of Amun in Thebes in the reign of Amenophis II (1428-1397 BC). He is well known from his tomb in Thebes, and his statue in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
between 1428 and 1397 BC date QS:P571,-1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,-1428-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,-1397-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 (New Kingdom of Egyptera QS:P2348,Q180568 ) |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | beige-brown steatite | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
length: 2 cm (0.7 in); height: 0.9 cm (0.3 in); width: 1.4 cm (0.5 in) dimensions QS:P2043,2U174728 dimensions QS:P2048,0.9U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,1.4U174728 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q210081 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Accession number |
42.49 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of creation | Egypt | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Object history |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions | [Translation] Chief of the Two Lands / to his boundaries, High priest of / Amun: Meri. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source | Walters Art Museum: Home page Info about artwork | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
|
Licensing
[edit]This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the Walters Art Museum as part of a cooperation project. All artworks in the photographs are in public domain due to age. The photographs of two-dimensional objects are also in the public domain. Photographs of three-dimensional objects and all descriptions have been released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License.
In the case of the text descriptions, copyright restrictions only apply to longer descriptions which cross the threshold of originality.
العربيَّة | English | français | italiano | македонски | русский | sicilianu | +/− |
- Object
-
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.
You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. - Photograph
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.Attribution: Walters Art Museum- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
- You are free:
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue |
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 03:53, 25 March 2012 | 900 × 405 (317 KB) | File Upload Bot (Kaldari) (talk | contribs) | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Walters Art Museum artwork |artist = Egyptian |title = ''Scarab with Name of Meri'' |description = {{en|This steatite scarab is inscribed on the flat underside with horizontally arranged writing namin... |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
- Items with VRTS permission confirmed
- Artworks with known accession number
- Artworks without Wikidata item
- Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum without wikidata item
- CC-PD-Mark
- Author died more than 100 years ago public domain images
- CC-BY-SA-3.0
- License migration redundant
- GFDL
- Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum
- Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum: needs category review