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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    “To be said over his mouth as an incantation: My heart of my mother; my heart of my “ mother ; my heart of my existences, may naught stand up to bear witness as an enemy “ against me before the judges. Made over the Osiris king SEBEKEMSAF, justified.” XHIth-XVIIth dynasty. Length of scarab, f in ; plinth, if in. by 1 in. [No. 7876.] Birch: (Synopsis (Brit. Mus.) 1848), p. 232; Budge: The Mummy, p. 235. This is the funerary scarab of a king Sebekemsaf (I or II), of the Xlllth-XVIIth dynasty, and is said to have been found with the mummy-case of king Nub-kheper-Ra Antef, also in the British Museum (No. 6652 ; Birch : Ag. Zts., vii, p. 53). The evidence of the scarabs seems to be in favour of placing the Sebekemsafs in the XVI Ith dynasty, with the later Antefs, rather than, as Pieper (Konige zwischen dem Alten und Neuen Reich, p. n) and Meyer {Nachtrage zur iigyptischen Chronologic {Abhandl. k preuss. Akad., 1907), p. 32) maintain, in the XII Ith dynasty before the Sebekheteps. In any case, the style of this scarab definitely points to the XVIIth rather than the beginning of the XHIth dynasty. It will be noticed that, in accordance with a superstition peculiar to the Old and Middle Kingdoms, the legs of the bird hieroglyphs are omitted, so that they should not run away from the amulet, and so damage the magic of the inscription. This custom is commonly found on ushabti figures and in tomb inscriptions of the Middle Kingdom. 212. Blue glazed steatite Scarab, of type D 2, on which is cut the prenomen of Nub-kheper-Ra Antef, surrounded by two uraei on neb-signs and two ideographs of “ beauty.” Fine work. Xlllth-XVIIth dynasty. Length,-f in. Petrie : Hist. Scarabs, 157. [No. 4138.] 213. Green glazed steatite Scarab, of type G 2, inscribed with the prenomen of Nub-kheper-Ra Antef, surrounded by the signs of “beauty,” “kingship,” and the ka. Xlllth-XVIIth dynasty. Length, f in. [No. 27052.] 214. Glazed steatite Scarab, of type E 2, faded to white, inscribed with ideograms of “ life,” “ good luck,” “ increase,” “ stability,” “ kingship,” etc., syste- matically arranged about the name of Nub-kheper-Ra Antef in the centre. Nacreous glaze. Xlllth-XVIIth dynasty. Length, in. [No. 39927.] 215. Glazed steatite Scarab, of type G 3, faded to white. On the base is inscribed the name of king Nub-icheper-Ra Antef (?), and “double life.” Xlllth-XVIIth dynasty. Length, in. [No. 39965.] m m sic 216. Glazed steatite Scarab, of type D 2, faded to white, -2- JJ. inscribed with, possibly, a modification of the prenomen of Nub- ^ KHEPER-Ra Antef, with the symbols of “life” and “lordship,” 0^0 repeated. Xlllth-XVIIth dynasty. Length, £ in. T rszi 1 [No. 30501.] 217. Blue-green glazed steatite Scarab, of type D 3. On the base is -0 inscribed a modification of the prenomen of Nub-kheper-Ra Antef, in which the sign nefer is substituted for that of Ra, with the sign of “life” * n ♦ between two ue/er-signs below, surrounded by a spiral border. Fine work. 0 ir 0 Xlllth-XVIIth dynasty. Length, -§• in. [No. 32565.] 218. Blue glazed steatite Scarab, of type B, faded to brown. On the base is inscribed (probably a corrupt form of) the name of Nub-kheper-Ra Antef, with the sign J for O between two uraei, and two symbols of “ life,” within a two-stranded coil border. Xlllth- XVIIth dynasty. Length, in. [No. 40701.] id l