. The sacred beetle: a popular treatise on Egyptian scarabs in art and history. ion of all foreigners would be the result, as befel the Israelites in the XVIIIth Dynasty. H Before proceeding to this period, however, there are some scarabs shown on Plate I which are worthy of mention, and which may be placed more definitely when further discoveries are made of dated tombs, such as are being found every year. 238 is a scarab of the Yth Dynasty, beautifully cut, better thanmany of later date. The owners name is very clearly told f ° jS =£= J> Ptahhotep. One of the most interest-ing tombs at Sa
. The sacred beetle: a popular treatise on Egyptian scarabs in art and history. ion of all foreigners would be the result, as befel the Israelites in the XVIIIth Dynasty. H Before proceeding to this period, however, there are some scarabs shown on Plate I which are worthy of mention, and which may be placed more definitely when further discoveries are made of dated tombs, such as are being found every year. 238 is a scarab of the Yth Dynasty, beautifully cut, better thanmany of later date. The owners name is very clearly told f ° jS =£= J> Ptahhotep. One of the most interest-ing tombs at Sakkarah was of a priest of this name, whohad charge of the Pyramids of User ? n * Ra, Men ? Kau *hor,and Assa. The EgyptExploration Fundhave published twosplendid volumesillustrating this finetomb, one of the bestof the period. Hisson is buried in thesame tomb, and theboys games andsports and studies areall depicted, and aninteresting portrait ofthe youth Ptahhotep waspossibly the authorof the celebratedcollection of proverbswhich bear the nameof PTAHHOTEPS SOX. 40 THE SACRED BEETLE. [Plate I. 278 is an interesting scarab. Its legend reads— , The Kings eldest royal son
Size: 1336px × 1870px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectegyptan, bookyear1902
