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The beetle is well detailed with a hatched border to the thorax, V-shaped winglets and vertical tongues on the plinth. The underside is engraved with a nude youth, standing on a groundline, bending to scrape his leg with a strigil. The figure is enclosed within a hatched border.
The posture of bending forward is perfectly suited to the oval space provided by the underside of a scarab. A nude youth with a strigil was already popular in the Archaic Period in Greece, and the subject was frequently copied on Etruscan gems (see p. 97 and no. 259 in J. Boardman, Archaic Greek Gems). Two Etruscan scarabs with the same subject, from the 5th century, in Berlin and Paris, are labeled TUTE, the Etruscan name for Tydeus (see nos. 60-61 in P. Zazoff, Etruskische Skarabäen).
The posture of bending forward is perfectly suited to the oval space provided by the underside of a scarab. A nude youth with a strigil was already popular in the Archaic Period in Greece, and the subject was frequently copied on Etruscan gems (see p. 97 and no. 259 in J. Boardman, Archaic Greek Gems). Two Etruscan scarabs with the same subject, from the 5th century, in Berlin and Paris, are labeled TUTE, the Etruscan name for Tydeus (see nos. 60-61 in P. Zazoff, Etruskische Skarabäen).