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    "localId": "151963",
    "label": "Wild Bull Hunt Scarab of Amenhotep III",
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}

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    "id": "151963",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Wild Bull Hunt Scarab of Amenhotep III",
    "description": "Large commemorative scarabs are characteristic of Amenhotep III’s reign. About 200 are known, and all are inscribed with texts on their undersides, recording significant events in the life of the king and queen. This particular scarab is one of only 5 known examples that describe a royal bull hunt undertaken in his second year of rule, in which the king killed 96 bulls. More than just a pastime, the king’s success as a hunter symbolized the triumph of royal order over the forces of nature and chaos.",
    "date": "c. 1391–1353 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.36",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60755873"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Scarabs"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.36/1984.36_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.36/1984.36_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.36/1984.36_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 10.5 x 6.6 x 2.5 cm (4 1/8 x 2 5/8 x 1 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BCE)"
    ],
    "accession": "1984.36"
}

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    "tec": "steatite",
    "tombstone": "Wild Bull Hunt Scarab of Amenhotep III, c. 1391–1353 BCE. Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BCE). Steatite; overall: 10.5 x 6.6 x 2.5 cm (4 1/8 x 2 5/8 x 1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Betty and Max Ratner, 1984.36",
    "collection": "Egypt - New Kingdom",
    "didYouKnow": "The variation in tone appears to be related to inclusions and pigmentation in the stone.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Eggebrecht, Arne, and Joachim Boessneck.<em> Das Alte Ägypten: 3000 Jahre Geschichte und Kultur des Pharaonenreiches. </em>München: C. Bertelsmann, 1984.",
            "page_number": "p. 187"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1984.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 2 (April 1985).",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 166; Mentioned: p. 200, no. 2",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159897"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P., Betsy Morrell Bryan, Lawrence Michael Berman, and Elisabeth Delange.<em> Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World.</em> Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1992.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: no. 1, p. 70"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Berman, Lawrence M. \"Overview of Amenhotep III, and His Reign,\" in <em>O'Connor and Cline </em>(1998).",
            "page_number": "pp 12-13, fig. 1.5"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 295; Mentioned: p. 294-296"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Schlögl, Hermann Alexander, Regine Buxtorf and Andreas Brodbeck. <em>Kunst und Handwerk aus Ägyptens Goldener Zeit. </em>Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 2, figs. 1.2 & 1.3; Mentioned:. p. 3"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.36",
    "creditline": "Gift of Betty and Max Ratner",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-02 11:23:17.780000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.36/1984.36_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 151963,
    "dept": "Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art",
    "coll": "Egypt - New Kingdom",
    "med": "steatite",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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