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About the Author: Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853"1942) was a pioneer in the field of modern archaeology. He introduced the stratigraphical approach in his Egyptian campaigns that underpins modern excavation techniques, explored scientific approaches to analysis and developed detailed typological studies of artefact classification and recording, which allowed for the stratigraphic dating of archaeological layers. He excavated and surveyed over 30 sites in Egypt, including Giza, Luxor, Amarna and Tell Nebesheh.Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie”TMs 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 manufac

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Author

W.M. Flinders Petrie;

Publisher

Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9798888570036

Category

nonfiction