Scarabs: The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.Myer, Isaac
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Scarabs: The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.
Myer, Isaac
Egypt -- Religion; Scarabaeus; Symbolism
Scarabs. Art in making, 52, 53.
forms of usually met with, 47, 48.
difference as to large and small, 21.
divisions of, 48, 49.
where and how worn by the living, 58.
put in place of the Heart inscribed with chapters from the Book of
the Dead, 67. See, Appendix A, also Heart.
where found on mummies, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62.
representations of, with the head of a cow, ram _et seq._, 59.
set in gold, 59.
engraving on, 48.
symbols engraved on, 20, 21.
age of those not engraved on the under or flat part, 46, 47.
unfashionable in the XIIth Dynasty, 40.
the oldest thus far known, 46. See, Neb-ka.
difficult to judge of the age of, 28. See, Forgery.
historical, 23 _et seq._, 49 _et seq._
great value of a knowledge of, to the historian, 29.
Scarabs. Knowledge of the age of, 29.
re-issue of, by a later monarch, 28.
Etruscan, 134 _et seq._ See, Etruscan.
the material in which Etruscan, were made, 135, 136.
Phœnician, 128 _et seq._
Sardinian, 130, 131.
forgery of, 123 _et seq._
Seals. Egyptian, some archæologists incorrectly claim, that they came
from Mesopotamia, 37, 38 _et seq._
Sealing mentioned in the Old Testament, 35, 36.
Phœnician, 129 _et seq._
Seb, 94, 147.
Sebak-em-saf. King, copy of Chapter XXXB of the Book of the Dead on a
scarab of, 154.
Sechit, 147.
Sechit-hotepit, 150.
Selk goddess of libraries, 71.
Sent. King, Introd. viii., ix., x.
Serpentine. The XXXth Chapter of the Book of the Dead, incised on, 151.
Shade. The, of the dead, 116.
_Shait an Sensen._ The, 60.
Shepherd Kings. See, Hyksos.
Shera. Steles from the tomb of, Introd. viii.
Shesh. Very ancient recipe of the queen Shesh for washing the hair,
Introd. x.
Shu, 106, 108.
Signet. The scarab as a, 7, 15, 16.
Signet ring. Mention of the, in the Old Testament, 35, 36.
Signets Egyptian, sometimes squares or parallelograms, 33.
Soldiers wore the scarab to increase bravery, 7, and note.
Solon, 75.
Soul. The responsible, called the Ba. See, Ba.
Soul. Immortality of the, 98. See, Introduction.
Soul. Immortality of the, and the writings attributed to Moses,
Introd. xiii. _et seq._
Soul of the good was eternal, 96.
Soul of the wicked was destroyed, 96.
Souls. The reservoir of, 99 and note. Note. Comp. Hermes Trismegistos.
Book. The Virgin of the World, and Book. The Initiations or Asclepios.
Sphinx. The Great, an abstraction, 81.
was an image of Ra-Harmakhis, 81.
was Harmakhu-Khepra-Ra-Tum, 83.
the philosophical value of the Great, 95.
the Great, meaning of, 82, 83.
Statues of diorite, 41, 42.
Stele of the Great Sphinx, 83.
Stelæ. Oldest known, Introd. vii., viii.
Strabo, 75.
Sutu. The caverns of, 150.
_Suten-hotep-ta._ The, Introd, viii., ix.
Symbolism of the scarabæus, according to Pliny, 7. See, Scarabæus
and Scarabs.
Tamar. See, Thamar.
Ta-nen, 94, 103.
Tanis. Scarabs of, 27.
Tefnut, 106.
Teta. King, Introd. x.
Thales, 75.
Thamar or Tamar, 36.
Thespesion quoted, 4.
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