Egyptian antiquities, scarabs : an introduction to the study of Egyptian seals and signet rings.

  • Newberry, Percy E. (Percy Edward), 1869-1949.
Date:
1906
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Credit: Egyptian antiquities, scarabs : an introduction to the study of Egyptian seals and signet rings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    17 Fig. 8. preserved in a tomb at Abusir; he is fastening the string around the vase, and above him is the legend, Khetem bati, “ sealing honey ” (see fig. 8). The beautiful dolomite marble and carnelian vases found in the tomb of King Khasekhemui (circa 33°° b.c.) at Abydos are secured A MAN SEALING UP A in this way. Each of these has a HONEY JAR. cover of thick ]d foi] fitted over th (From a sculpture at . ° Abusir.) top, and tied down with a double turn A.Z.,Vol. xxxviii, PI. v. of twisted gojd W> over the tie of which a small lump of clay is fixed, which in this instance has not been impressed with a seal, but merely pressed together by the fingers. Gener- ally the pellet of clay to be “sealed” was placed on the top of the jar (as in figs. 5 and 7), but sometimes it covered the knot at the side (as in fig. 9). The same manner of securing the mouth of a jar still survives in the way our liqueur A SEALED JAR' bottles, etc., are often in a tomb at sealed, and in the way we Medflm,) close our jam pots, except that in the latter case we no longer find it necessary to attach a seal. The contents of bags and sacks were also secured by means of the seal ; a Fig- 10. A SEALED BAG. ISKS2E; PieC£ °f COrd was tied round the neck, ., , r , the knot of which was immersed in a pellet of clay and “sealed” (see fig. ,o). A lar<re number of broken seals of this kind have been found c