Submit a Picture

Where is My Picture?!

The Queue

Met Name

Met Type

Thin Sections

Libyan Desert Glass. 300 grams.

  Desert Glass

FC Meteorite House writes:

Carved in the tradition of the ancient Egypt heart scarabs.

The scarab rolling his ball of dung like the sun rolls across the firmament is the attribute of Khepri, the god of the rising sun, who often is depicted in his anthropomorphic guise with a scarab as head. The sometimes sudden and numerous appearance of these beetles, made the Egyptians believe, that they were created ex nihilo and without siring.

Therefore the scarab symbolizes transformation. In bandaging the corpse carved scarabs were wrapped in on the breast over the place of the heart. On the flat bottom side was engraved a spell from the Book of the Dead (a standard burial object too, a kind of a travel guide for the other world), asking the heart not to testify against the deceased, when it will be put in the scale pan when the good deeds would be weighed off against the bad ones during the judgment in front of Osiris.

Prominent is the large scarab in the pectoral funeral jewelery of Tutankhamun (1332 – 1323 B.C.) in the Egypt Museum of Cairo, which was originally thought to be a chalcedony, until in 1996 by chance an Italian tourist and impact researcher assumed that the scarab could consist of Libyan desert glass, which was finally approved in 1998.

More info here

  Click to view larger photos     #1     #2

Contact us at info@meteoritenhaus.de