Scarabs and cylinders with names / illustrated by the Egyptian collection in University College, London, by W. M. Flinders Petrie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), 1853-1942, author.

Series:

Oxbow Classics in Egyptology Series

Oxbow Classics in Egyptology Series ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scarabs.

Egypt--Antiquities.

Egypt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (100 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxbow Books, [2023]

Summary:

Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie's 1917 pioneering typological catalog of Egyptian name-scarabs and cylinders, one of a number of such catalogs to be reissued in this new series. The beetle form of amulets are common finds on Egyptian sites but examples with engraved names represent a small proportion of the total. Over 240 different royal persons are named among the various major museum collections. Petrie here illustrates and discusses over 1600 examples in his own collection together with a selection of inscribed steatite cylinders. He discusses the religious aspects of scarabs and their magical use, their varieties, materials and manufacture, and presents a chronological discussion with fully illustrated catalog of both line drawings and photographs.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

INTRODUCTION

1. Scope of the volume

2. Extent of the subject

CHAPTER I RELIGIOUS ASPECT OF THE SCARAB

3. Veneration for the beetle

4. Ideas connected with it

5. The use of the scarab

6. Literary references to it

7. Amulet and seal

CHAPTER II THE VARIETIES OF SCARABS

8. Varieties of treatment

9. Five genera copied

10. Classification of backs

11. Range of types

12. Range of small details

13. Locality of smooth backs

14. System of using the types

CHAPTER III THE MAKING OF SCARABS

15. Glazing

16. Stones used

17. Glass and paste

18. Cutting soft materials

19. History of wheel cutting

20. History of point graving

CHAPTER IV THE EARLY CYLINDERS, PLS. I-VII

21. A corpus provided here

22. Classes of types

23. Primitive concept of writing

CHAPTER V THE OLD KINGDOM, PLS. VIII-XI

24. The first four dynasties

25. The vth dynasty

26. The vith dynasty

27. The viith-ixth dynasties

28. Hardstone scarabs, xth and xith

29. The xith dynasty

CHAPTER VI THE EARLIEST AGE OF SCARABS

30. Little proof of re-issues

31. Characteristics of periods

32. The Antec V group

33. The Ka-nefer-uah group

34. Fixtures between xth-vith dynasties

35. The Unas group

36. The vth-iiird dynasty group

37. Summary

CHAPTER VII THE MIDDLE KINGDOM

38. Rise of the xiith dynasty

39. Re-issue of Senusert III

40. Private scarabs, scrolls

41. Ur res moba title

42. Maot kheru, etc

43. Notes on peculiar scarabs

44. Private scarabs, borderless

45. Dating of private scarabs

46. The xiiith dynasty

47. The xivth dynasty

48. Doubtful names

49. The xvth dynasty, Hyksos

50. The xvith dynasty, Hyksos

51. The xviith dynasty

CHAPTER VIII THE NEW KINGDOM

52. The early xviiith dynasty.

53. Hotshepsut and Tehutmes III

54. Amenhetep II and Tehutmes IV

55. Amenhetep III

56. The Aten episode

57. Sety I and Ramessu II

58. The close of the xixth dynasty

59. The xxth dynasty

60. Heart scarabs

61. The xxist dynasty

62. The xxiind dynasty User-maot-ra kings

CHAPTER IX ETHIOPIANS AND SAITES

63. Early xxvth dynasty

64. Vassal kings

65. Later xxvth dynasty

66. Rise of the Saites

67. The xxvith dynasty

68. The Persian age

69. Close of the scarab

70. Greeks and Romans

71. Late private scarabs and seals

CONTENTS OF PLATES, List of Kings, and Census of Scarabs

SUMMARY of museums and of dynasties

I-LVIII. PLATES OF SCARABS, and pages of CATALOGUE.

LIX-LXXIII. PLATES OF BACKS OF SCARABS.

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ISBN:

9798888570036

OCLC:

1401057792