Scarabs and Cylinders (with Names)
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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.
W.M. Flinders Petrie
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) was a pioneer in the field of ‘modern’ archaeology. He introduced the stratigraphical approach in his Egyptian campaigns that underpins modern excavation techniques, explored scientific approaches to analysis and developed detailed typological studies of artefact classification and recording, which allowed for the stratigraphic dating of archaeological layers. He excavated and surveyed over 30 sites in Egypt, including Giza, Luxor, Amarna and Tell Nebesheh.
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Scarabs and Cylinders (with Names) - W.M. Flinders Petrie
SCARABS AND CYLINDERS WITH NAMES
The first figure is the natural form, adapted to an oval outline. The second figure is the artificial form.
SCARABS AND CYLINDERS WITH NAMES
Illustrated by the Egyptian Collection in University College, London.
SIR W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE
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First published by the British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1917
Facsimile edition published in 1974 by Aris & Phillips Ltd
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Front cover: String of beads, scarabs and amulets. From Naqada South Town (Tomb 1), Egypt, Dynasty 19 (c. 1295–1186BC). Petrie Museum UC29133. Image © Mary Hinkley, UCL Educational Media.
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
C
ONTENTS OF PLATES
, List of Kings, and Census of Scarabs
S
UMMARY
of museums and of dynasties
I
—
LVIII
. P
LATES OF SCARABS
, and pages of C
ATALOGUE
.
LIX
—
LXXIII
. P
LATES OF BACKS OF SCARABS
.
ERRATA IN PLATES.
xix, 4th line: 1 to be under 1st of Queen Ana.
xxxvi, 6th line: Names of the Aten begin at 45.
liv, 3rd line: 13 to be 1; 1 to be 2; 2 to be 3, 4; 4 to be 5; 5 to be 6.
The British School of Archaeology in Egypt has been making a collection for a war fund since 1914. We undertook to raise £1,000 for the Officers’ Families Fund, and achieved this in about a year. We are now collecting entirely for the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, to maintain Dr. Elsie Inglis’ two Field Hospitals, which are serving the Serbian division of the Russian army in Rumania, and are greatly valued by our allies (Hon. Sec. S. W. H., London Units, Hilda Flinders Petrie). It is hoped that all subscribers will help to make this the special War Work of our organisation. We have no hesitation in continuing to receive usual subscriptions to the School, as such are invested in War Loan, and thus pass into the National Savings for the present. Our students are now all serving their country, but when that sad duty is passed, they will again turn to the School to support their researches. Meanwhile our supporters, by their subscriptions, ensure getting the volumes of this catalogue, which will be continued for the years of the War. The volumes are:—
Amulets (previously issued by Constable).
Scarabs, for 1915.
Tools and Weapons, for 1916.
Following volumes will be on Ornaments and Toilet Objects; Stone and Metal Vases; Scarabs with designs and Button Seals; Prehistoric Egypt; Games and Writing Materials; Glass and Glazes (in colours); Beads (in colours); and ten or twelve other subjects.
At a time when all our energies are required for our defence, it is needful to state the conditions under which any historical work is produced. At the beginning of the war the writer of this volume offered to resign University position until peace, but was officially instructed to retain it; and the most direct duty of such position is the present catalogue of College collections. His offer also, in two official enquiries, to take the work of other men in public service, has been refused. The printing of this volume has been left to be produced entirely as deferred work, only taken up to level the output of the printers and plate-makers; thus equalising the conditions of labour, without employing more workers than are otherwise needed. The splendid early volunteering of over 250 men from the firm of printers, shows that they do not hesitate at complying with the national requirements. Great delays in printing have necessarily occurred, and it is doubtful if volumes beyond this, and that on Tools, can be issued till after the war.
SYSTEM OF THE CATALOGUE
The current description of the plates, and discussion of the materials.
The HISTORICAL Index, and general census of scarabs in the principal collections.
The TEXT Index.
The PRIVATE NAMES Index (lithograph).
The TITLES INDEX (lithograph).
The CATALOGUE plates and description of all early cylinders accessible, and of all scarabs with names in University College.
The TYPES OF BACKS of scarabs.
The order of the scarabs under each king is (1) Falcon name; (2) Nebti name; (3) Hor-nubti name; (4) Throne name with phrases, or with titles, or plain, proceeding from the longest to the simplest; (5) Personal name in similar order. Other objects with names follow after the scarabs under each person. Private scarabs, etc., are placed as nearly as may be in their historic position. Heart scarabs are all together between the xxth and xxist dynasties.
The system of numbering is not continuous throughout, as that does not indicate the period at sight. Each object has the number of the dynasty, the king, and of the object under that king. Thus 18·6·23 is the xviiith dynasty, 6th king (Tehutmes III), and his 23rd scarab. The drawings of scarabs outside of this collection are only inserted to complete the series, and are not numbered or catalogued. The colour stated is the original colour wherever any part of it can be found, regardless of the general change in such cases. The letter and number after the colour refer to the types of backs.
In the plates of backs LIX—LXXIII the references below each drawing are the dynasty, king, and number, as above stated. Where there is more than one reference, the underlined reference is the source of the drawing, which the others resemble. The top number of each drawing is that of the type, and is used with the type letter of the class for reference in the Catalogue pages. Occasionally two drawings have the same number when the type is alike, and they only differ in work.
References are made to the following works:—
H
ALL
, H. R., Catalogue of Egyptian Scarabs, etc, in the British Museum, 1913.
N
EWBERRY
, Percy E., Scarab-shaped Seals (Cairo Catalogue), 1907.
N
EWBERRY
, Percy E., Scarabs, 1906.
W
ARD
, John, The Sacred Beetle, 1902.
F
RAZER
, George, A Catalogue of Scarabs, 1900 (now in Munich).
The G
OLENISHEFF
Collection (photographs privately issued).
P
ETRIE
, W. M. F., Historical Scarabs, 1889.
PREFACE TO THE 2023 EDITION
In the 1970s, a much-anticipated new series of publications illustrated objects and themes related to the excavations of the archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) in Egypt, and aspects of the collection of University College London’s Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology. A young couple setting up in business in the early 1970s, Aris and Phillips published these works, written by members of the UCL Egyptology Department, in their Modern Egyptology series. Building on Petrie’s own observations, the authors of these