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HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY.
finish of the workmanship. Egyptian scarabasi may be considered at one
and the same time as camei and intagli. Sometimes the execution in
relief of the figure of the insect is so carefully finished, as to leave
no doubt that it is an accurate representation of the scarabseus sacer,
at the present day found in Barbary and all along the coast of
Africa. It was sacred to the sun, and to Pthah, and was adopted as
a sacred emblem of the God who made all things out of clay. Its
Egyptian name was Cheper, Creator. The elytra or upper wings
of the stone scarabasi are generally united, and sometimes marked
with furrows. They were generally used for ornamental, funereal,
and historical purposes, and were usually worn as seals and amulets.
EGYPTIAN SCAltAliiKI.
The greater number of scaraboji were mounted in rings, which fre-
quently bore the name of the wearer, the name of the monarch in
whose reign he lived, and also the emblems of certain deities; they
were so set in the gold ring so as to allow the scarabasus to revolve
on its centre, it being pierced for that purpose. They wore also
strung in necklaces. Scarabasi are of various sizes, and were made
of different substances, of green stone, cornelian, hajmatite, granite,
serpentine, agate, lapis lazuli, plasma, amethyst, and other mate-
rials ; a cheaper kind was made of limestone, stained to imitate a
harder and dearer qualify, or of the ordinary blue pottery. Scarabsei
HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY.
finish of the workmanship. Egyptian scarabasi may be considered at one
and the same time as camei and intagli. Sometimes the execution in
relief of the figure of the insect is so carefully finished, as to leave
no doubt that it is an accurate representation of the scarabseus sacer,
at the present day found in Barbary and all along the coast of
Africa. It was sacred to the sun, and to Pthah, and was adopted as
a sacred emblem of the God who made all things out of clay. Its
Egyptian name was Cheper, Creator. The elytra or upper wings
of the stone scarabasi are generally united, and sometimes marked
with furrows. They were generally used for ornamental, funereal,
and historical purposes, and were usually worn as seals and amulets.
EGYPTIAN SCAltAliiKI.
The greater number of scaraboji were mounted in rings, which fre-
quently bore the name of the wearer, the name of the monarch in
whose reign he lived, and also the emblems of certain deities; they
were so set in the gold ring so as to allow the scarabasus to revolve
on its centre, it being pierced for that purpose. They wore also
strung in necklaces. Scarabasi are of various sizes, and were made
of different substances, of green stone, cornelian, hajmatite, granite,
serpentine, agate, lapis lazuli, plasma, amethyst, and other mate-
rials ; a cheaper kind was made of limestone, stained to imitate a
harder and dearer qualify, or of the ordinary blue pottery. Scarabsei