Catalogue of Egyptian scarabs, etc., in the British Museum / by H.R. Hall. Printed by order of the Trustees.

  • British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
Date:
1913-
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Credit: Catalogue of Egyptian scarabs, etc., in the British Museum / by H.R. Hall. Printed by order of the Trustees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [135-142 135. Glazed steatite ram-headed Scarab, of type A 8; clumsy style, On the base is cut a cartouche containing the prenomen of USERTSEN III (Kha-ka-Ra), with the protecting hawk, between a winged solar disk and the neb-sign. Sai'te Period. Length, i in. [No. 42342.] esembling No. 134. 136. Light blue faience Scarab, of type A 8, inscribed with an incorrect © imitation of the prenomen of USERTSEN III (Xllth dynasty). XXVIth dynasty. Length, \ in. LJ [No. 46237.] 137. Blue glazed steatite Scarab, of type E 2, inscribed with the prenomen of the kings Kha-ka[u]-Ra (Usertsen III) and AuAbra (Heru), and the symbols of stability and good luck. Xllth dynasty. Length, f in. [No. 37652.] For similar scarabs see Legrain, Annales du service des Antiquites, VI, 137 ; Budge, Catalogue of the Meux Collection, p. 196, No. 376 ; Hist. Eg., iii, p. 77. A pm C0I u ° u \u/ 138. Green glazed steatite Scarab, of type D-E, inscribed with the name of king Au-Ab Her (?) in a cartouche between two uraei and two hawks, above the signs kheper-neb, between two Red Crowns. (Same style as others, which are probably of the reign of Usertsen III.) Part of the back broken off. Xllth dynasty. Length, in. [No. 28813.] 139. Green glazed steatite Scarab, of type E 2, inscribed with a formula suggested by the prenomen of king Heru (Her), to which are O added symbols of “good luck,” “life,” etc. Xllth dynasty. Length, f in. T A [No. 39436.] 140. Blue glazed steatite Scarab, faded to white, of type D 2, with two palm branches incised on the wing-cases. On the base is inscribed the name of king Her, between two uraei, and above the neb-sign. Xllth dynasty. Length, f in. [No. 39690.] 141. Glazed steatite Scarab (glaze entirely rubbed off), of type D-E 2, inscribed “Lord of the Two Lands, N-maat-Ra (Amenemhat III), living for ever,” surrounded by the symbols of kingship. Upper part broken off Xllth dynasty. Length, f in. [No. 376550 A s- 142. Blue-green glazed steatite Scarab, of type E 2, inscribed with the prenomen of Amenemhat III, N-maat-Ra, in a double-lined cartouche between two utchats and two bees, beneath the sign of the “ North,” between two ideographs of “ princedom,” and above an ankh-slgn in a cartouche between two Red Crowns. Xllth dynasty. Length, § in. Petrie: Hist. Scarabs, 261. [No. 3931.]