Ancient Scarab Talisman Pendant Color and Karat:14k Solid White Gold In 60 or 61 CE

In 60 or 61 CE

floating above the ground as if mid-leap

To wear it is to carry a fragment of antiquity

the lararium was a small household shrine: a place for offerings

lest the heat of the sun melt the wax

Ancient Scarab Talisman Pendant Color and Karat:14k Solid White Gold In 60 or 61 CEEgyptian scarabs are one of the oldest examples of engraved talismanic gems to be found in history. The Egyptian sun god Ra was seen rolling the sun across the sky each day, disappearing at night only to revive again each morning. An echo of this phenomenon was seen in the behavior and life cycle of a scarab beetle, a microcosm of the rising and falling of the sun, life and death and life once again. The scarab became culturally significant to the