Cesnola, Luigi Palma di [Editor]: A descriptive atlas of the Cesnola collection of Cypriote antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Band 3) (New York, 1903)

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PLATE XXV. CONTINUED.

Bow is of gold, filled. Collet has double scalloped decoration. Seal is a well-marked
scarab, whose bottom shows an erect Uraeus and a "truth" feather. Entirely Egyptian.

12. Seal, Swivel. Gold and pure green plasma. Diameter 7/% inch. Scarab !>/8X15/32
inch.

Plain, thin wire hoop whose ends pass through the scarab and are twisted each about the
opposite branch. The scarab is a perfect specimen; decorated by two seated, winged androsphinxes
with hands raised before the "sacred" tree between them. "Lord"-sign below. See Cesnola,
Cyprus, page 375: 13; plate XXXVII, 13.

13. Seal, Swivel. Gold and white stone (steatite?). Diameter 13/ie inch. Collet 9/i6X7/i6
inch.

Plain gold bow and collet, holding a scarab decorated below with a standing amphora show-
ing a double libation. " Lord "-sign below. See Cesnola, Cyprus, page 371: 23; plate XXXV,

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14. Seal, Swivel. Gold and sard. Length 1 2Yai inch. Collet WiexS/z inch.

Solid gold bow with heavy gold collet holding a fully modelled scarab engraved with a
Horus-hawk wearing the double Egyptian crown and having the crook and scourge of Osiris over
his back. In front is an erect Uraeus, with the sign of Isis, and below, the "lord"-sign. See
Cesnola, Cyprus, page 310, 372: 1; and plate XXXVI, 1.

15. Seal, Swivel. Gold and chalcedony. Diameter i/i inch. Seal, S/g inch long.
Plain, heavy gold bow, drawn down to engage holes in ends of scaraboid seal. No collet.

Seal, shows a lion and a sphinx facing each other. Tall cross between them. See Cesnola, Cyprus,
page 376: 14; plate XXXVII, 14.