Scarab Tie Pin (Modern)
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
collected about 1912
Gold and faience or plaster
Overall: 3 3/8 × 11/16 × 1/4 in. (8.5 × 1.8 × 0.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Richard Parkhurst, Class of 1916
167.67.21137
Geography
Place Made: Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Adornment
Research Area
Ancient Egypt
Africa
Not on view
Inscriptions
Text: scrolls and poorly formed hieroglyphs
Provenance
Collected by Lewis Parkhurst (1856-1949, Class of 1878), in Egypt, 1912; given to Ernest Fox Nicholas (1869-1924), Dartmouth Physics Professor (1898-1903); Dartmouth President, 1909-1916, about 1912; bequeathed to his wife, Katherine William West Nichols (1864-1950), 1924; given to Richard Parkhurst (1894-1991, Class of 1916), Winchester, Massachusetts, about 1924, because of the pin's associaton with his father and President Nicholas; given to Dartmouth College, 1956; transferred to present collection, 1967.
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