Khepri & Khepri Crater - London, England, UK
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N 51° 31.131 W 000° 07.573
30U E 699376 N 5711441
The Egyptian God Khepri is associated with rebirth and the rising sun...and is represented as a scarab beetle.
Waymark Code: WMDJYE
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/22/2012
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This Khepri sculpture is located in the British Museum which does not charge an admission fee and DOES allow non-flash photography. The placard accompanying the sculpture idenitfies this as Khepri but the Museum website (
visit link) describes the sculpture this way 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)."
As for the crater, Wikipedia (
visit link) includes Khepri on the long list of craters on Jupiter's moon Ganymede with the one line: "Khepri 20°24'N 147°36'W? / ?20.4°N 147.6°W? / 20.4; -147.6? (Khepri) 47.1 1997 Khepri, God of transformations for the Heliopitans." 47.1 refers to the diameter of the crater.