Scarabs
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In this profusely illustrated volume, a noted authority examines the origin of the scarab, its importance in ancient times, its uses, and more, with detailed descriptions of the specimens depicted in the plates (over 1,100 illustrations, with 116 more in the text).
Chapters (340)
- SCARABS
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF PLATES AND ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.
- LIST OF PLATES.
- INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF EGYPTIAN SEALS.
- 1. General Remarks.
- 2. Importance of the Seal in Ancient Times.
- 3. Origin of the Seal.
- 4. Various Uses of the Seal.
- (a) For securing Property.
- (b) For authenticating Documents, etc.
- (c) For Transference of Authority.
- 5. The Officials Concerned in its use.
- 6. Seal Engravers and the Technique of Seal Engraving.
- THE VARIETIES OF EGYPTIAN SEALS.
- 1. Cylinder Seals.
- 2. Button-shaped and Hemi-cylinder Seals.
- 3. Scarab-shaped Seals.
- 4. Miscellaneous Forms of Seals.
- 5. Signet-Rings.
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.
- PLATE I. SOME ROYAL SIGNET-RINGS.
- PLATE II.
- PLATE III. PRE-DYNASTIC CYLINDER SEALS.
- PLATE IV. IMPRESSIONS OF EARLY CYLINDER-SEALS.[123]
- PLATE V. CYLINDER-SEALS OF THE FOURTH TO SIXTH DYNASTIES.
- PLATE VI. CYLINDER-SEALS OF THE TWELFTH DYNASTY.
- PLATE VII. CYLINDER-SEALS OF THE TWELFTH TO SEVENTEENTH DYNASTIES.
- PLATE VIII. MISCELLANEOUS CYLINDER-SEALS.
- PLATE IX. SCARABS BEARING ROYAL NAMES: FOURTH TO TWELFTH DYNASTIES.
- PLATE X. SCARABS OF THE KINGS OF THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH DYNASTIES.
- PLATE XI. SCARABS OF OFFICIALS OF THE TWELFTH TO FOURTEENTH DYNASTIES.
- PLATE XII. SCARABS OF OFFICIALS OF THE TWELFTH TO FOURTEENTH DYNASTIES—continued.
- PLATE XIII. SCARABS OF OFFICIALS OF THE TWELFTH TO FOURTEENTH DYNASTIES—continued.
- PLATE XIV. SCARABS OF OFFICIALS OF THE TWELFTH TO FOURTEENTH DYNASTIES—continued.
- PLATE XV. SCARABS OF OFFICIALS OF THE TWELFTH TO FOURTEENTH DYNASTIES—continued.
- PLATE XVI. SCARABS OF OFFICIALS OF THE TWELFTH TO FOURTEENTH DYNASTIES—continued.
- PLATE XVII. SCARABS OF OFFICIALS OF THE TWELFTH TO THE FOURTEENTH DYNASTIES—continued.
- PLATE XVIII. DECORATIVE SCARABS: TWELFTH TO EIGHTEENTH DYNASTIES.
- PLATE XIX. DECORATIVE SCARABS: TWELFTH TO EIGHTEENTH DYNASTIES—continued.
- PLATE XX. DECORATIVE SCARABS: TWELFTH TO EIGHTEENTH DYNASTIES—continued.
- PLATE XXI. SCARABS OF THE HYKSOS KINGS. (I).
- PLATE XXII. SCARABS OF THE HYKSOS KINGS (II).
- PLATE XXIII. SCARABS OF ROYAL AND OTHER PERSONAGES OF THE HYKSOS PERIOD.
- PLATE XXIV. MISCELLANEOUS SCARABS OF THE HYKSOS PERIOD.
- PLATE XXV. DECORATIVE SCARABS, MOSTLY OF THE HYKSOS PERIOD.
- PLATE XXVI. SCARABS OF KINGS, ETC., MOSTLY OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EARLY EIGHTEENTH DYNASTIES.
- PLATE XXVII. SCARABS OF THE EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY. (Thothmes I to Hatshepsut.)
- PLATE XXVIII. SCARABS OF THE EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY—continued.
- PLATE XXIX. OFFICIALS OF THE EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY; AND RINGS, ETC., FROM THE TOMB OF MAKET,[128] AT GUROB (temp. THOTHMES III).
- PLATE XXX. SCARABS OF THE EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY—continued.
- PLATE XXXI. SCARABS OF THE EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY—(continued).
- PLATE XXXII. HISTORICAL SCARABS OF AMENHETEP III.
- 1. Kirgipa and Her Harîm.
- 2. The Lion Hunts of Amenhetep III.
- 3. The Parents of Queen Thŷi and the Limits of the Egyptian Empire.
- PLATE XXXIII. HISTORICAL SCARABS OF AMENHETEP III—(continued).
- 1. The Wild Cattle Hunt.
- 2. The Lake at Zarukha.
- PLATE XXXIV. SCARABS OF THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH DYNASTIES.
- PLATE XXXV. SCARABS OF THE NINETEENTH DYNASTY (RAMESES II).
- PLATE XXXVI. SCARABS BEARING ROYAL NAMES: MEREN-PTAH I TO SA-AMEN.
- PLATE XXXVII. SCARABS OF TWENTY-SECOND TO TWENTY-FIFTH DYNASTY KINGS.
- PLATE XXXVIII. ROYAL AND PRIVATE SCARABS AND RINGS. (TWENTY-FIFTH TO TWENTY-SIXTH DYNASTIES.)
- PLATE XXXIX. SCARABS BEARING MOTTOES, GOOD WISHES, ETC.
- PLATE XL. SCARABS BEARING MOTTOES, GOOD WISHES, ETC.—continued.
- PLATE XLI. SCARABS BEARING NAMES OF FIGURES OF GODS, ETC.
- PLATE XLII. HIEROGLYPHICS, FLOWERS, ETC.
- PLATE XLIII. MISCELLANEOUS ROYAL AND PRIVATE SCARABS.
- PLATE XLIV. MISCELLANEOUS ROYAL AND PRIVATE SCARABS—continued.
- INDEX TO PERSONAL NAMES.
- INDEX TO TITLES.
- INDEX TO ROYAL NAMES
- PLATES.
- FOOTNOTES
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