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.
AUTHOR: Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (18531942) 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.
By:
W.M. Flinders Petrie
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 2
Dimensions:
Height: 296mm,
Width: 210mm,
ISBN: 9798888570029
Series: Oxbow Classics in Egyptology
Pages: 130
Publication Date: 01 June 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified
Introduction 1. Religious aspect of the scarab 2. The varieties of scarabs 3. The making of scarabs 4. The early cylinders, pls I–VII 5. The Old Kingdom, pls VIII–XI 6. The earliest age of scarabs 7. The Middle Kingdom 8. The New Kingdom 9. Ethiopians and Saites Contents of plates, list of kings and census of scarabs Summary of museums and dynasties Index to text Index of private names (lithographed) Index of titles (lithographed) I–LVIII. Plates of scarabs, and pages of catalogue LIX–LXXIII. Plates of backs of scarabs
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.
