. The sacred beetle: a popular treatise on Egyptian scarabs in art and history. ng,but as to their correct names and titles. Petries recent discoveriesat Abydos (i900-1901) have done much to clear up the difficultiessurrounding the kings of the early dynasties, and there is little doubtbut, in due time, the tombs of all these kings will be Petrie has already found the sepulchres and their records ofnearly a dozen kings, giving tangible reality to names which hehimself had regarded as mythical. The Step Pyramid of Sakkarah,it is now known, was built for Neter-khet, a king of theI
. The sacred beetle: a popular treatise on Egyptian scarabs in art and history. ng,but as to their correct names and titles. Petries recent discoveriesat Abydos (i900-1901) have done much to clear up the difficultiessurrounding the kings of the early dynasties, and there is little doubtbut, in due time, the tombs of all these kings will be Petrie has already found the sepulchres and their records ofnearly a dozen kings, giving tangible reality to names which hehimself had regarded as mythical. The Step Pyramid of Sakkarah,it is now known, was built for Neter-khet, a king of theIIIrd Dynasty. Doubtless in that neighbourhood the last rest-ing place of Neb-ka-ra may be found, when that wide region ofsepulchres receives such exhaustive search and survey as has beenrecently applied to the royal tombs of Abydos with such unexpectedresults. 206. KHA-F-RA, IVth Dynasty (390S-3845 ). The builderof the Second Pyramid of Ghizeh and of the beautiful granite temple near theGreat Sphinx. Thescarab, which is ofsteatite, is well pre-served, but has its green O Q ^ -] DIORITE STATUE OF KHAFRA. Cairo Museum. The kings name withthe additional title ofLord ^zz7. Thisgreat monarch isrendered familiar tous by his fine por-traits found in histemple and pre-served in the CairoMuseum. 207. MEN-KAURA, IVth Dynasty (3845-3759 B-c-)« Mr-Griffith considers that this scarab is not of this kings actualtime, but made in memory of him. The figure seemsof later date, but the cartouche, with the plumes over it, Plate I.] SCARABS OF OLD AND MIDDLE KINGDOMS. 29 ( O r^ [_J ], gives the name as on his monuments,with the royal title v_^ below the whole. Correctly, within it should be \J \J \J, but on scarabs the names are often abbreviated, We have a portrait of this king, who was the builder of the Third Pyramid of Ghizeh. There was a priesthood for the worship of Men- kaura, of which traces have been found for more than a thousand years after his death. (The Pyramid of A
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