Category: History - Ancient
SINCE the year 1895, when Professor Flinders Petrie’s book on _Historical Scarabs_ became “out of print,” the want of a comprehensive work on these interesting little Egyptian antiquities has been much felt. Two volumes on Egyptian Scarabs, it is true, have been published sinc...
SINCE the year 1895, when Professor Flinders Petrie’s book on _Historical Scarabs_ became “out of print,” the want of a comprehensive work on these interesting little Egyptian a...
2. Part 2It is very difficult for us, especially for those of us who are not familiar with Eastern civilization, to realize the great importance that was attached to the seal by the peop...
3. Part 3Folding doors were secured by a sliding bolt, but such bolts of course gave no security against a thief, so they also were sealed. They were shaped as in fig. 12, with a groove...
4. Part 4Pottery and paste scarab seals were moulded in terra-cotta moulds. A lump of potter’s clay or paste was taken, then pressed into a dusted mould, and flattened with a knife at th...
5. Part 5By far the commonest form of Egyptian seal was that cut in the shape of the scarabaeus beetle, hence its name, “Scarab” or “Scarabaeus,” from the Greek name of the insect, [Gree...
6. Part 6Hunting scenes on scarab-seals appear for the first time during the Hyksos period, and a beautifully cut specimen of this date is in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford (Pl. XXV, 26)...
7. Part 7V. Signet-ring of Zeser-kheperu-ra Setep-en-ra (Hor-em-heb). In the Egyptian Museum of the Louvre. This is the most remarkable specimen of an ancient Egyptian signet-ring known....
8. Part 813. “The Scribe of the Temple of Hetep-Usertsen, Senbu.” Clay-sealing found at Kahûn. (P. _I._ IX, 26.) Hetep-Usertsen was the name of the pyramid of Usertsen III at Dahshûr. (G...
9. Part 920. Gr. 21. Alnw. 22. Liv. 23. Gdn. 24. B.M. 25. B.M. 29230. 26. “The heiress of Ra.” B.M. 27. “Favoured with delicacies.” Berl. 1903. 28. “Rising in the Horizon.” Har. 29. “Swe...
10. Part 10The inscriptions on these scarabs are generally extremely difficult to interpret, but a few will be found translated on p. 78. I give here, therefore, only references to the col...
11. Part 11The reader must understand, however, that not _all_ Egyptian scarabs were used as seals. Some, but a very small number compared to the seal class, were used as amulets, and a fe...
12. Part 12He has been described as a kind of “Keeper of the Signet;” but his rank in the Egyptian State was much higher than that of the Scottish official. It is a position that appears t...