Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 324
an accurate representation of the scarabaeus sacer,at the present day found in Barbary and all along the coast ofAfrica. It was sacred to the sun, and to Pthah, and was adopted asa sacred emblem of the God who made all things out of clay. ItsEgyptian name was Cheper, Creator. The elytra or upper… … EGYPTIAN SCAKAB^I. The greater number of scarabaei were mounted in rings, which fre-quently bore the name of the wearer, the name of the monarch inwhose reign he lived, and also the emblems of certain deities; theywere so set in the gold ring so as to allow the scarabaeus to revolveon its centre,…
Art, Ancient · Archaeology
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