Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1917 pioneering typological catalog of Egyptian name-scarabs and cylinders, one of a number of such catalogs to be reissued in this new series.

The beetle form of amulets are common finds on Egyptian sites but examples with engraved names represent a small proportion of the total. Over 240 different royal persons are named among the various major museum collections. Petrie here illustrates and discusses over 1600 examples in his own collection together with a selection of inscribed steatite cylinders. He discusses the religious aspects of scarabs and their magical use, their varieties, materials and manufacture, and presents a chronological discussion with fully illustrated catalog of both line drawings and photographs.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Scope of the volume
  • 2. Extent of the subject
• CHAPTER I RELIGIOUS ASPECT OF THE SCARAB
  • 3. Veneration for the beetle
  • 4. Ideas connected with it
  • 5. The use of the scarab
  • 6. Literary references to it
  • 7. Amulet and seal
• CHAPTER II THE VARIETIES OF SCARABS
  • 8. Varieties of treatment
  • 9. Five genera copied
  • 10. Classification of backs
  • 11. Range of types
  • 12. Range of small details
  • 13. Locality of smooth backs
  • 14. System of using the types
• CHAPTER III THE MAKING OF SCARABS
  • 15. Glazing
  • 16. Stones used
  • 17. Glass and paste
  • 18. Cutting soft materials
  • 19. History of wheel cutting
  • 20. History of point graving
• CHAPTER IV THE EARLY CYLINDERS, PLS. I—VII
  • 21. A corpus provided here
  • 22. Classes of types
  • 23. Primitive concept of writing
• CHAPTER V THE OLD KINGDOM, PLS. VIII—XI
  • 24. The first four dynasties
  • 25. The vth dynasty
  • 26. The vith dynasty
  • 27. The viith—ixth dynasties
  • 28. Hardstone scarabs, xth and xith
  • 29. The xith dynasty
• CHAPTER VI THE EARLIEST AGE OF SCARABS
  • 30. Little proof of re-issues
  • 31. Characteristics of periods
  • 32. The Antec V group
  • 33. The Ka-nefer-uah group
  • 34. Fixtures between xth—vith dynasties
  • 35. The Unas group
  • 36. The vth—iiird dynasty group
  • 37. Summary
• CHAPTER VII THE MIDDLE KINGDOM
  • 38. Rise of the xiith dynasty
  • 39. Re-issue of Senusert III
  • 40. Private scarabs, scrolls
  • 41. Ur res moba title
  • 42. Maot kheru, etc
  • 43. Notes on peculiar scarabs
  • 44. Private scarabs, borderless
  • 45. Dating of private scarabs
  • 46. The xiiith dynasty
  • 47. The xivth dynasty
  • 48. Doubtful names
  • 49. The xvth dynasty, Hyksos
  • 50. The xvith dynasty, Hyksos
  • 51. The xviith dynasty
• CHAPTER VIII THE NEW KINGDOM
  • 52. The early xviiith dynasty
  • 53. Hotshepsut and Tehutmes III
  • 54. Amenhetep II and Tehutmes IV
  • 55. Amenhetep III
  • 56. The Aten episode
  • 57. Sety I and Ramessu II
  • 58. The close of the xixth dynasty
  • 59. The xxth dynasty
  • 60. Heart scarabs
  • 61. The xxist dynasty
  • 62. The xxiind dynasty User-maot-ra kings
• CHAPTER IX ETHIOPIANS AND SAITES
  • 63. Early xxvth dynasty
  • 64. Vassal kings
  • 65. Later xxvth dynasty
  • 66. Rise of the Saites
  • 67. The xxvith dynasty
  • 68. The Persian age
  • 69. Close of the scarab
  • 70. Greeks and Romans
  • 71. Late private scarabs and seals
• CONTENTS OF PLATES, List of Kings, and Census of Scarabs
• SUMMARY of museums and of dynasties
• I—LVIII. PLATES OF SCARABS, and pages of CATALOGUE.
• LIX—LXXIII. PLATES OF BACKS OF SCARABS.