华圣甲虫 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	华圣甲虫
品名（英）	Scarab of Wah
入馆年号	1940年，40.3.11
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 1981
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	长 2.6 厘米 (1 in); w. 2 厘米 (13.16 in); h. 1.4 厘米 (9/16 in)
介绍（中）	这枚圣甲虫戒指和三个圣甲虫手镯（40.3.12-.14）是在华交叉手腕上的包裹物中发现的。在Wah的时代，圣甲虫是一项相对较新的发明，仅在大约一个世纪前，即第一中间时期（约公元前2100-2030年）的某个时候开发。护身符的形状像蜣螂，圣甲虫sacer，这也是其现代名称的来源。蜣螂在古埃及语中是"kheperer"。古埃及人看到这些小生物推着巨大的粪球，想象太阳在黎明时被甲虫推上天空，他们把冉冉升起的太阳称为"Kheperi"。"成为"或"成为"的单词是"kheper"，甲虫象形文字被用来拼写所有这些单词。因此，圣甲虫成为今生恢复活力和来世轮回的强大护身符。一些圣甲虫，像这个，是一个简单的椭圆形，很少或没有装饰。其他的，比如华的两幅银色例子，是对昆虫的更精细的描绘。
介绍（英）	This scarab ring and three scarab bracelets (40.3.12-.14) were found in the wrappings over Wah's crossed wrists. In Wah's time, the scarab was a relatively new invention having been developed only about a century earlier, sometime in the middle of the First Intermediate Period (about. 2100-2030 B.C.). The amulet is shaped like a dung beetle, scarabaeus sacer, which is also the source of its modern name. The dung beetle was "kheperer" in ancient Egyptian. Having watched the small creatures push huge balls of dung, the ancient Egyptians imagined the sun being pushed into the sky at dawn by a beetle, and they referred to the rising sun as "Kheperi." The word for "to become" or "come into being" was "kheper," and the beetle hieroglyph was used to spell all of these words. As such, the scarab became a powerful amulet for rejuvenation in this life and reincarnation in the next. Some scarabs, like this one, are a simple oval shape with little or no decoration. Others, like Wah's two silver examples, are more elaborate depictions of the insect.