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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    287. Pale blue glazed steatite Scarab, partly faded to white, of type F 3. On the back is a lily, with flower and two buds, delicately incised. On the base are cut the figures of two opposed hawks /j and the royal name HERU- Ipeq (?) ^ (?), or Ian (?) (?), between two crowned uraei with their tails joined above the name. The crowns of the uraei are rude imitations of the Upper crown, (J • Hyksos Period. Length, in. [No. 32344.] This name was read (|(] ° Ipeq-Heru, by Budge : Hist. Eg., ii, 173 ; its real reading is uncertain. If Iati is correct, it may be a corrupt form of the name of Khian (289, 290), with the ® omitted ; thus resembling Manetho’s “ Iannas,” which has been regarded as the equivalent of “ Khian.” Or it may be the name of a distinct and separate king, the original of “ Iannas.” 288. Glazed steatite Scarab, faded to ivory-white, of type P'-G 2, inscribed “ Son of the Sun, Ian (?),” within a scalloped border. Hyksos Period. Length, ^ in. Newberry: Scarabs, PI. xxii, 4. [No. 32441.] Possibly a corrupt form of the name Khian or Ian (see preceding, 287). Newberry reads “Ya-mu.” 289. Blue-green glazed steatite Scarab, of type D 2, inscribed “ Good God, Aa-USER-Ra Khi[a]n, giving life,” within an incomplete spiral border. Hyksos Period. Length, f in. [No. 30500.] Or possibly of Mer-user-Ra (Iapeqher) PI. xxii, 29. , as read by Newberry: Scarabs, II 11 290. Blue glazed steatite Scarab, of type D 2, from a ring, in its original gold mount. Inscribed, within a spiral border, is the name of the “ Son of the Sun, Khian, living for ever!” Finest style. Hyksos Period (XVIth dynasty). Length, 1^ in. [No. 37664.] This is one of the finest and most interesting scarabs of the collection. 291. Glazed steatite Cowroid, faded to white, with beaded border. On the base is inscribed the name of Ne-KA-Ra II, , with a neb-sign, in a cartouche without base. On either side is the symbol of “ fertility,” between two headless hawks. Hyksos Period (XVth-XVIth dynasty). Length, § in. [No. 45457-] This second king Ne-ka-RA is only known from these scarabs, the date of which is certain. 292. Glazed steatite Cowroid, with beaded band round the back, inscribed with the name of Ne-KA-Ra II, in a cartouche between two tiraei and two gggEgtt (headless) hawks, and above the winged solar disk. From Tell el-Yahudiya. Hyksos Period. Length, § in. Petrie: Hist. Scarabs, 107. [No. 17211.] 293. Glazed steatite Scarab, of type F 2, faded to white, inscribed with the name of king Ne-KA-Ra II, ^ O '4J' with an uraeus at the side, a lily-spiral volute above, and the ^7 sign below. End of the Middle Kingdom. Length, f in. [No* 38569-]