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W.M. Flinders Petrie

Buttons and Design Scarabs

W.M. Flinders Petrie

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English
Oxbow Books
15 February 2023
Precious metal & precious stones: artworks & design; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Egyptian archaeology & Egyptology; Ancient Egyptian religion & mythology
Series: Oxbow Classics in Egyptology
This facsimile reissue of Flinders Petrie's extensive catalog of buttons and scarabs describes and illustrates over 1500 examples, along with an appendix on additions to the 'Scarabs and Cylinders' volume published earlier.

In keeping with his other object catalogs, Petrie devises object classifications based on form with an attempt at dating their sequences. He describes the back of the objects, materials, their designs and inscriptions, and offers ideas on their meanings. Particular attention is paid to animal and human representations and those possibly of gods. He also identifies several local series.

AUTHOR: 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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Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Height: 296mm,  Width: 210mm, 
ISBN:   9798888570043
Series:   Oxbow Classics in Egyptology
Pages:   68
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
1. Buttons 2. Designs on buttons 3. Rounded mid-pieces 4. Meanings of scarabs 5. Geometrical scarabs 6. Materials and forms of backs 7. Geometrical with signs 8. Inscriptions 9. Animal figures 10. Human figures 11. Local series 12. Supplement to ‘Scarabs and cylinders’   Plates

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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