Produced by deaurider, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: _Egyptian Antiquities._ _Plate I._ Ring bearing the name of King Apepŷ. Ring bearing the name of King Nefer-Ka-Ra. Ring of King Amenhetep II. Ring of King Akhenaten. Ring of King Hor-em-heb.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES SCARABS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF EGYPTIAN SEALS AND SIGNET RINGS BY PERCY E. NEWBERRY _Author of “The Amherst Papyri” “The Life of Rekhmara” “Beni Hasan,” “El Bersheh,” &c._ WITH _FORTY-FOUR PLATES AND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT_ CHEAPER RE-ISSUE. LONDON ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO LTD 1908 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY, ST. MARTIN’S LANE, LONDON. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO MY FRIEND MRS. E. B. ANDREWS OF “THE BEDUÎN.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE. ------- SINCE the year 1895, when Professor Flinders Petrie’s book on _Historical Scarabs_ became “out of print,” the want of a comprehensive work on these interesting little Egyptian antiquities has been much felt. Two volumes on Egyptian Scarabs, it is true, have been published since that date, but these works treat of private collections and do not claim to deal with the subject in its entirety or even in a scientific manner.