That scarabs of Tehutimes III and Amenhotep III have been found in Arban and Calah, is no sufficient clew.
If plunderers haven't obliterated the name and stolen the scarabs and other marks of identification, we generally discover who it is.
Probably he had left his fellow-plunderers at the entrance; the roof may have looked unsafe, but he had hoped to collect all the jewels and scarabs before it gave way.
One Englishman had heard that Freddy had been wading ankle-deep in priceless scarabs and jewels and gold collars and necklaces.
Scarabs of obsidian and crystal date back to the 4th dynasty.
For an elaborate classification of the Etruscan scarabssee Furtwangler, Geschichte, p.
These engravings stand in the closest relation to Greek works of the close of the 6th century and many imported Greek scarabs also occur.
Like the earlier Greek scarabs it has the cable border round the design, but the border continued in use in Etruria when it had been abandoned in Greece.
Scarabs with nacreous or decomposed glaze in the hollows (as in the deep cuts at the side) are safe; also, if there are natural cracks by age, which would prevent modern cutting.
There are many other historical scarabs in this Museum but these have the longest and most important inscriptions.
A large number of scarabs bear the names of the pharaonic kings; this is not strange when we remember that the pharaoh was Horus, Khepera, and also a son of Ra and of Osiris.
The value of scarabs to the historian is therefore great, as the study of scarabs will reveal, the names of kings unknown heretofore from any of the other monuments so far discovered.
Egyptian scarabs were found by Mr. Layard, in his explorations on the banks of the Khabour in Mesopotamia, at Arban; and he gives plates of the same.
Used inscribed scarabs as seals in commercial and other transactions.
In the XVIIIth Dynasty the art of glazing deteriorated, and most of the scarabs of this period have now lost their original colors, and are at present only browns and greys.
These scarabs are usually cut in dark green jasper, some are made of cornelian, others of a glass-paste, rarely in amethyst or sardonyx.
The scarabs of the time of Khufu are all small and of fine work but without elaboration, and the colors are delicate, beautiful and permanent.
Without any practice in the arts, and with the rudest tools, some of the peasants have carved scarabs and beautiful statuettes and ornamented them with hieroglyphic legends.
We can therefore make a general classification of scarabs into: I.
Scarabs went out of use under the so-called Heretic kings of the XVIIIth Dynasty.
Among them are many pots and stone bowls of undoubted late Neolithic type, with whole classes of objects which did not occur at Naqada, stelæ, inscribed scarabs of limestone, and clay seals stamped with the Ka names of kings.
It is believed by Budge that the Egyptian custom of "burying green basalt scarabs inside or on the breasts of the dead" is as old as the first Dynasty (c.
It was Aline Peters who had to bear the brunt of her father's mental agony when he discovered, shortly after Lord Emsworth had left him, that the gem of his collection of scarabs had done the same.
Preston Peters from a supercilious scooper-up of random scarabsto what might be called a genuine scarab fan.
Scarabs are Egyptian symbols in the form of beetles," the specialist hurried on.
Gradually he came to love his scarabs with that love, surpassing the love of women, which only collectors know.
Mr. Peters had collected dollars; he began to collect scarabs with precisely the same enthusiasm.
He scooped in scarabs from the four corners of the earth, until at the end of a year he found himself possessed of what, purely as regarded quantity, was a record collection.
Well, I guess I've gotten together the best collection of scarabs outside the British Museum, and some of them are worth what you like to me.
He wondered idly, as he rang the bell, what scarabs might be; but he was interested in a fluffy kind of way in all forms of collecting, and he was very pleased to have the opportunity of examining these objects; whatever they were.
Mr. Peters wishes to show me his collection of--I think scarabs was the word he used.
From that moment Mr. Peters brought to the collecting of scarabs the same furious energy which had given him so many dollars and so much indigestion.
It is still a moot question whether anyscarabs go back to the age of the Old Empire.
It is possible, however, that some at least of the scarabs which bear the name of Ra-n-ka of the Eighth Dynasty are contemporaneous with the Pharaoh whose name is written upon them.
If so, they are the oldest inscribed scarabswith which we are acquainted.
Jar handles marked with scarabs were also found at Jericho; (Figs.
In the same stratum some tombs were found containing skeletons, some pottery of early forms, a bronze knife, and some scarabs set in gold.
Underneath the pottery in one cave a considerable number of scarabs were found, some of them mounted in gold.
In this stratumscarabs of the period of the Egyptian "middle kingdom" were found.
Judging from the scarabs found about the foundations of the high place, its beginnings date from 2000 B.
Various types of pottery, knives of flint and bronze, many stone household utensils, an Astarte figure, and some scarabs of the period of the twelfth Egyptian dynasty were found.
Potters' marks continue, but scarabs are less often used in making them than in the preceding period.
Trade with Egypt is also shown to have existed by the discovery of Egyptian scarabs of the time of the Middle Kingdom in the excavation of Gezer, Jericho, Taanach, and Megiddo.
Mr. Loftie traces the origin of the inscribed scarabs to a very early epoch in the Egyptian annals.
As many as three thousand scarabs have been found in one tomb, and the number in existence in museums and private collections is past count.
These beautiful and often costly Egyptian scarabs have been made the subject of very exhaustive study by various writers, more particularly by Mr. Loftie and Mr. Flinders Petrie.
From Egypt, the belief in the luck and value of engraved scarabs as charms or amulets passed on to the Greeks, and also to the Etruscans.
Another very distinct group of insects which act as scavengers in a different way in hotter climates than ours are the famous scarabs or sacred beetles, worshipped almost like gods by the ancient Egyptians.
About sixty different kinds of live scarabs are known to inhabit the Mediterranean district in Europe, Asia, or Africa: and four of these kinds can be easily distinguished as being individually represented in the old Egyptian gems.
English people know the scarabs best, I think, in the neighbourhood of Naples, or on the Lido at Venice--that great bank of sand and shingle which separates the lagoons from the open Adriatic.
Many Greek scarabshave been found; and in the old Etruscan tombs such lucky beasts are comparatively common.
Loftie has pointed out examples of late scarabs engraved with undoubted Christian symbols--not only crosses but even crucifixes.
Everywhere George and his uncle were followed around by people who wanted to sell them relics which they said they had found in the ancient ruins,--coins and scarabs and pottery, and all sorts of odd things.
I have already passed over that spot and did not know one of the most ancient and most wonderful scarabs known to the world was lying there!
Mycenæan vases have been found in Egypt, and Egyptian scarabs in Mycenæan deposits.
Conversely, scarabs of the twelfth dynasty have been found in Crete, notable among these being one in steatite with a spiral ornament peculiar to that period.
In Phoenician times the pretended stone is quite as often a glass paste as a real gem, and the case is the same with the scarabs so largely used as seals.
Prayers and magical charms were said, scarabs and amulets enclosed, and finally the body was placed in a coffin so constructed that it would stand upright, as though the person were standing erect.
The amulets were charms supposed to bring good luck, and thescarabs had a deeper significance.
Amulets andscarabs were also deposited with the mummy.
With the mummy there was a walking-staff; in the abdomen were some dôm nuts, and a group of scarabs (Pl.
One of the scarabs upon the necklace bears the nomen of Thothmes I.
The scarabs found on the mummies, when worn as a ring, were always placed on the third finger of the left hand.
One of the scarabs had a fish and lotus-flower engraved upon its bezel.
The scarabs found on these two mummies bear the names of Thothmes I and II (Pl.
In the débris traces of plaited hair and two red jasper scarabs (Pl.
On the third finger of the left hand, attached by string, were two jasper scarabs (Pl.
The scarabs were two of glazed steatite mounted in gold fundi, and one of cornelian; the cowroids were three of glass mounted in gold, and one of steatite mounted in gold (Pl.
The principal purpose to which these scarabs were applied was to form the revolving bezel of a signet-ring, the substance in which the impression was taken being a soft clay, with which a letter was sealed.
It is well known that the use of these scarabs was so extensive as to have prevailed beyond Egypt, being adopted by the Phoenicians and the Etruscans.
Arabs had been selling royal scarabsfor some time, and the archaeologists finally discovered the secret of their supply.
I wondered why we should be trusted in this unheard-of way; I also wondered what those two scarabs were likely to be worth.
He added: "I have two scarabs at home; I should like to bring them to your hotel.
Fakirs led their baboons, magicians carried cobras in wicker trays, and peddlers hawked their scarabs and souvenirs.
A street fakir thrust a tray of scarabs up from the sidewalk and grinned.
It is quite clear that the prayer was turned into a spell, and that it was used merely as a "word of power," and that the hard stone scarabs were regarded merely as amulets.
Under the Middle and New Empires this prayer was cut upon hard green stone scarabs, but the versions of it found on scarabsare often incomplete and full of mistakes.
To the latter, Egyptology appears to be but a pleasant amusement, the main value of which is the finding of pretty scarabs suitable for the necklaces of one's lady friends.
These words hold good when we deal with Egyptian history, and it is our business to learn the political lessons which the Egyptologist can teach us, rather than to listen to his dissertations upon scarabs and blue glaze.
Reference has been made to the scarabs set as ornament in the gold necklaces, and similarly we find amber used and, in the later work, precious stones and pearls.
Though most collections make no distinction between Greek and Etruscan scarabs the differences, though slight, are quite certain, and consist in the greater elaboration of the borders, edges and backs of the Etruscan examples.
From the time of the Eighteenth Dynasty scarabs may be counted by millions, and the execution is more or less fine according to the hardness of the stone.
Sometimes Sixth Dynasty scarabs are of obsidian and crystal, and early Middle Kingdom scarabs of amethyst, emerald, and even garnet.
But if so, it is curious that no royal titles are given to her parents; moreover, the author of the scarabshas made Yua the father of the queen and Tua her mother.
It was in the last of these years that he married queen Teie, who is said on scarabs to have been the daughter of "Yua and Tua.
Scarabs exist, which he assigns to the period when Egypt was ruled by invaders from Asia, and on which is written the name of a Pharaoh Ya'aqub-hal or Jacob-el.
They consist of Egyptian beads and scarabs of the eighteenth dynasty, and on one of the beads are the name and title of "the royal wife Teie.
As for ancient history, we content ourselves with wondering if Anthony and Cleopatra, when picnicking in the desert, dropped orange peel and cake to feed the living scarabs of their day.
No eye so dull that it could not see how the shadows on land and water were painted at evening with a blue glaze, like the bloom on old scarabs and mummy beads, and broken bits of pottery that art cannot copy now.
Once more, necklaces and scarabs and baskets were thrust under our noses.
He can talk Egyptian scarabs with my brother, and Irish crochet with me, and then turn around and discuss politics with my husband, and quote poetry to Phillis Drew in the next breath.
As if all the Egyptian scarabs and Babylonian tablets in the world could balance the scale with Helen on the other side!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scarabs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
