Egyptian decorative art : a course of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution /by W.M. Flinders Petrie (1920)
Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942 · London : Methuen · leaf 127
n figured as holding the disc of thesun between its claws; and it is at leastpossible that the symbolic idea of thescarab as the maker or creator arose fromthe burial of its ball being an emblem ofthe setting of the sun, from which newlife will arise in due course. It occurswith the wings extended… … SYMBOLICAL DECORATION 113
Decorative arts -- Egypt · Decoration and ornament -- Egypt
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