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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    [206-211 206. Glazed steatite Scarab, of type B, faded to brown, inscribed “ King’s Daughter, Nebt-TEP-AHIU,” 1 “ XIIIth dynasty. Length, 44 in. T /WWW —O' CS \ 10 / [No. 40672.] ikg&i 207. Blue glazed steatite Scarab, of type B, with the legs roughly striated, inscribed “ Royal Daughter {sic), Rensenb,” between symbols of “life” and “stability.” Brilliant glaze. XII Ith dynasty. Length, 1 in. [No. 28126.] n n ¥ 1? i 208. Glazed steatite Scarab, faded to white, of type D 2, inscribed “ Son of the Sun, Shenes Uah-ANKH. Chipped. Late Middle Kingdom. Length, f in. Cf. Newberry : Scarabs, PI. x, 28. [No. 32392.] 1 209. Green glazed steatite Scarab, of type L 2, inscribed with the royal name Kha-SEBEK-Ra (?) in a double-lined cartouche, surrounded by the ideographs of “ kingship,” “ life,” and “ beauty,” and surmounted by the sign ka. XIIIth dynasty. Length, f in. Petrie: Hist. Scarabs, 354. [No. 17265.] Presented by John Kirkpatrick, Esq., 1852. 210. Blue faience Scarab, of type F 2, inscribed with the prenomen of © ? Suatch-n-Ra (possibly a mistake for © , Suah-N-Ra, the prenomen P | of Senbmaiu1). Thick, coarse glaze. P \ Chipped at top. Late ... Middle Kingdom. Length, £ in. Loftie: Essay, lxvi. ™ [No. 24137.] 211. Green jasper Scarab, of type E, with domed back and human face, set in a gold plinth, rounded at the rear end; the legs of the scarab are represented in relief, splayed out on the surface of the plinth. Round the top edge of the setting is a beaded line. On the base and sides of the plinth are beaten in sentences from Chapter XXXb of the Book of the Dead:— Sk. | u ! v — ,c> \\ 0 \\ 0 1 j! i To.2 k! —n <=> r=a a k <s. r-i-> See Naville, Deir el-Bahnri, Xlth Dynasty, II, PI. xc.