Dung beetles lay eggs in a pellet which they roll along and the Egyptians regarded this action as an image of the sun and its course through the heavens, rolled by a gigantic beetle. Scarabs are associated with the Egyptian god, Khepri. It was Khepri that pushed the sun across the sky.

This scarab has been beautifully hand carved from basalt.

Egyptian Faience is a glazed non-clay ceramic material. It is composed mainly of quartz with amounts of lime and natron or plant ash. The body is coated with soda-lime silica glaze. Adding different metals and their oxides causes the appearance of different colour. Faience was used not as an inexpensive substitute for costly materials, but for its association with light and re-birth.