. Guide leaflet. t among the gods. Ho to me. Heart of mine; I am in possessionof thee, I am they master and thou art by me;fall not away from me; I am the dictator towhom thou shalt obey in the Netherworld. Among the peoples that were influencedby Egyptian culture, the scarab graduallybecame more highly conventionalized,losing much of its resemblance to a beetleas it lost its sjTubolic and esoteric signifi-cance. Thus we have the scaraboid, anoval dome-shaped seal, inscribed on theflat underside as was the scarab, but nolonger with the magic charms of other words the scaraboid, a pure
. Guide leaflet. t among the gods. Ho to me. Heart of mine; I am in possessionof thee, I am they master and thou art by me;fall not away from me; I am the dictator towhom thou shalt obey in the Netherworld. Among the peoples that were influencedby Egyptian culture, the scarab graduallybecame more highly conventionalized,losing much of its resemblance to a beetleas it lost its sjTubolic and esoteric signifi-cance. Thus we have the scaraboid, anoval dome-shaped seal, inscribed on theflat underside as was the scarab, but nolonger with the magic charms of other words the scaraboid, a purelyornamental engraved stone, is literally thestepping stone between the scarab and EGYPTIAN OR SYRIAN NECKLACE , , r ^ i 4 r c Of the Sixth Century , Rough prisms of ^^e modern form of seal. A form of light-colored enamel are used as beads, alternated engraved amulet that came into use in with pearls in a gold setting. (Specimen in^. , 1x^11^^ j Metropolitan Museum of Art) Persia about the Eighth Century, and. J THE AXTIQUK USE OF (IhMS U that reached its eiihnination in elal)()ra-tion from the Sixteenth to the S(»ven-teenth Centuries, was made fi-om |)()Hs1um1,flat slabs of chalcedony and carneUan,varying in size and shape, but rarely morethan two and a half inches in longest di-mensions. These Persian seals belonged tothe Moslem culture, and since the Mo-hammedan code forbids the depicting ofnatural objects, the engravers of theseamulets were restrained from using thesymbolism employed by peoples of otherfaiths. As a consequence they all beartexts from the Koran inscribed in Arabiccharacters, the engraving in many in-stances being beautifully executed. Thequaint Arabic letters that look like someglorified kind of shorthand, are highlydecorative, and were embellished withloving care by the Moslem engravers. The smaller and older examples aremostly oval or more rarely cushion-shaped and were lettered with incised
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