{"id":1653,"date":"2017-01-05T19:33:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T19:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/?page_id=1653"},"modified":"2017-01-05T19:37:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T19:37:03","slug":"growing-collections-2-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/growing-collections-2-5\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1654\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/239\/2017\/01\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"640\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/239\/2017\/01\/unnamed.jpg 640w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/239\/2017\/01\/unnamed-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Egyptian Scarab with gold mount<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Date Made: 1570-1070 BCE (New Kingdom)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Accession Number: MH 1943.6.A.J<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Type: Jewelry<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This scarab was probably used as a ring because the mount of the hammered gold sheet has tubular ends attaching to a hoop of a finger-ring. The design on top shows a stylized lotus blossom. It has a swivel mount that was common for signet-rings. The underside of the scarab could be used a seal. Also a gift from Caroline Ransom Williams.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/growing-collections-2-6\/\">Next Object \u2192<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/growing-collections-2-4\/\">\u2190 Previous Object<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/growing-collections\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1156\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/239\/2016\/12\/imgres-150x150.png\" alt=\"imgres\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/239\/2016\/12\/imgres-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/239\/2016\/12\/imgres.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 25px) 100vw, 25px\" \/><\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian Scarab with gold mount Date Made: 1570-1070 BCE (New Kingdom) Accession Number: MH 1943.6.A.J Type: Jewelry This scarab was probably used as a ring because the mount of the hammered gold sheet has tubular ends attaching to a hoop of a finger-ring. The design on top shows a stylized lotus blossom. It has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1653","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1653\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/foundingsisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}