Giant Scarab Beetle - London, England, UK - Insect Sculptures on Waymarking.com

This beetle sculpture is located in the British Museum which does not charge an admission fee and DOES allow non-flash photography.
The Museum website (visit link) describes the sculpture and provides additional information:

"Giant sculpture of a scarab beetle

From Istanbul, modern Turkey
Egyptian, perhaps Ptolemaic period, 332-30 BC

The scarab beetle (Scarabeus sacer) is one of the enduring symbols of ancient Egypt, representing rebirth and associated with the rising sun. This green diorite sculpture, at around one and a half metres long, is one of the largest representations known. It would presumably have originally stood in a temple. It is said to be Ptolemaic (305-30 BC), and may have been taken to Constantinople (modern Istanbul), when Constantinople was the capital of the later Roman Empire (from AD 330). There is another large scarab near the Sacred Lake in the Temple of Karnak; it originally came from the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III (1390-1352 BC)."

Type of insect: Scarab Beetle

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