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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.7382#0093
CALAURIA
151. Cornelian Scaraboid. Found in inner hall of the old temple. Pharaoh charging in
his chariot. The back worked into the form of a
hippopotamus (cf. scaraboid, said to be from
Calauria, seen in Athens in hands of a dealer,
eye of Horus, back worked into hippopotamus
also). (Cf. B.S.A. xiii. p. 88ff.; Newberry,Scarabs, p.85; and
Hall, Catalogue of Scarabs in the British Museum, No. 1514.)
Context: found immediately above L.H. deposit.
(I am unable to discover where this scarab now is. Ath. Mitt. 1895,
pp. 300-302, fig. 20.)
EARLY XVIIIth DYNASTY
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151. Cornelian Scaraboid. Found in inner hall of the old temple. Pharaoh charging in
his chariot. The back worked into the form of a
hippopotamus (cf. scaraboid, said to be from
Calauria, seen in Athens in hands of a dealer,
eye of Horus, back worked into hippopotamus
also). (Cf. B.S.A. xiii. p. 88ff.; Newberry,Scarabs, p.85; and
Hall, Catalogue of Scarabs in the British Museum, No. 1514.)
Context: found immediately above L.H. deposit.
(I am unable to discover where this scarab now is. Ath. Mitt. 1895,
pp. 300-302, fig. 20.)
EARLY XVIIIth DYNASTY
67