Flinders Petrie, William Matthew
Editorial: Oxbow Books
Colección: Oxbow Classics in Egyptology ; 2
Número de páginas: 130 págs. 29.0 x 21.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 01-01-2023
EAN: 9798888570029
ISBN: 979-8-88857-002-9
Precio (sin IVA): 33,36 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 34,69 €
Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1917 pioneering typological catalogue of Egyptian name-scarabs and cylinders, one of a number of such catalogues 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 1,600 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.