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    The heart scarab is an oval scarab artifact dating from ancient Egypt. Mostly an amulet, it was also used as jewelry, a memorializing artifact, or a grave...
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    scarabs that seem to be specifically related to ancient funerary practices: heart scarabs, pectoral scarabs and naturalistic scarabs. Heart scarabs became...
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    The Heart Scarab of Hatnefer is a piece of funerary jewelry dating to the 15th century BC. Done in gold and serpentinite, the Heart scarab was intended...
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    The heart scarab was an amulet used as a grave good or jewelry worn by the deceased pharaoh. The function of the heart scarab was to bind the heart to...
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    be carefully preserved and stored within the mummified body with a heart scarab carefully secured to the body above it to prevent it from telling tales...
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    from primordial mud. The heart scarab was a large scarab amulet which was wrapped in the mummy bandaging over the deceased's heart. It was made from a range...
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    deceased. Perhaps the most famous example of such "heart scarabs" is the yellow-green pectoral scarab found among the entombed provisions of Tutankhamen...
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  • Scarlet Scarab is the name of three characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Roy Thomas, Archie Goodwin, and...
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    equipped with a complete funeral outfit consisting of a gilded mask, a heart scarab, funerary papyri, and canopic equipment. By contrast, Ramose in his painted...
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    is explicitly dated to his Year 7. LD VI 23 (9) rock inscription. A heart scarab naming a certain king Sobekemsaf is generally assigned to him and is...
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    texts and wooden models disappeared from new tombs of the period while heart scarabs and figurines shaped as mummies were now often included in burials,...
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    statue, found at Abydos. His heart scarab is so far the oldest datable heart scarab. It is a human-headed green jasper heart scarab with nine lines of hieroglyphics...
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  • of the Heart ritual (later described in Spell 125. Often inscribed on heart scarab amulets as well as on a manuscript. This spell also claims to have been...
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    Theban Tomb MMA 729 Burial site of Neferkhawet and relatives Heart Scarab of Neferkhawet Location El-Assasif...
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    The gold decoration of her coffin has been stolen in antiquity; her heart scarab was stolen by the Abd-el-Rassul family of grave robbers, but has been...
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    body, with ones in the form of snakes and lotus at the throat and a heart scarab on the chest. Grafton Elliott Smith removed the remainder of the wrappings...
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    bowl, both today in the Louvre, four canopic jars now in Florence, the heart scarab, a gold bracelet in the Rijksmuseum of Leiden and Djehuty's dagger in...
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    Osorkon I, and an Ushabti figure of Queen Tashedkhons". In addition, a heart scarab found in the king's burial gave his name simply as "Takelot Meryamun"...
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    salvaged. The man was identified from the titles on a small black limestone heart scarab as Merenkhons, Doorkeeper of the House of Amun; nothing identifiable...
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  • shabtis were found. They bear the name and the title of the queen. Her heart scarab was found in Nuri burial Nu. 47. The owner of this burial is not known...
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  • 1964 by Charlton Comics drew mystical abilities from an ancient Egyptian scarab. Published by Charlton Comics and later DC, 1966 creation Ted Kord was Garret's...
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    Cairo. The mummy was damaged by tomb robbers. In the search for the heart scarab the main part of the chest area had been penetrated. Packing linen under...
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    wrapped in linen. Sennefer was also adorned with a mummy mask. He had a heart scarab and was adorned with a pectoral. On his coffin was placed a painted piece...
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    a royal tomb at Tanis, a Year 9 donation stela from Bubastis, and a heart scarab featuring the nomen 'Takelot Meryamun' — now have been attributed exclusively...
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    Weighing of the Heart ritual. Such spells as 26–30, and sometimes spells 6 and 126, relate to the heart and were inscribed on scarabs. The texts and images...
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  • looted, but still contained a high number of objects, including the heart scarab of the queen, at least 270 shabtis (providing her name and title), several...
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  • funerary cone (UC37666) from Thebes, now at University College London. A heart scarab of Minmontu called Senres is in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches...
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  • Atlanersa and the mother of king Senkamanisken. Maletaral is known from a heart scarab found in a burial at Nuri (Nu 41). Her burial consisted of a pyramid...
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    in the chapel of his pyramid which bears his throne name and nomen, a heart-scarab and a large granite stela inscribed with a funerary text and bearing...
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    tomb complete with a diadem or crown, some bows and arrows, and the heart-scarab of a king Sobekemsaf. Ryholt, Kim: The Political Situation in Egypt during...
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