Sarcophage de scarabée
Sarcophage de Scarabée is a limestone sarcophagus from Egypt’s Late Period, now held in the Louvre’s Egyptian Antiquities collection in Paris. Its scarab form gives the small object its defining silhouette. Found in the Serapeum of Memphis at Saqqara, it entered the Louvre after Auguste Mariette’s excavation and the division of finds. The Sully wing, room 322, houses this example of ancient Egyptian funerary art.
A three-dimensional ronde bosse technique shapes the limestone, while the scarab evokes rebirth and regeneration. The motif also connects the object with Khepri and ancient Egypt’s ideas about life and death. Its compact dimensions measure about eight centimetres high, 9.6 centimetres long, and 8.4 centimetres wide. That small scale brings its carved volume and symbolic design into sharp focus.
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