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Title: The sacred beetle: a popular treatise on Egyptian scarabs in art and history
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Ward, John, 1832-1912 Griffith, F. Ll. (Francis Llewellyn), 1862-1934
Subjects: Scarabs Egypt -- Antiquities
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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hich wasultimately the ruin of his country. The scarabs of RAMESES II, the Great (1275-1208 B.C.), arenot very common. In fact, these little proofs of history ,; weregetting out of fashion. People were growing less religious, perhaps,though the best statue we possess of Rameses II represents him ina most devout attitude, presenting a table of offerings to the godsof the great temple of Abydos. Instead of this, he was a destroyerof the ancient shrines, which he pillaged, creating instead vainmemorials of himself. Egypt seems never to have recovered fromhis rapacious extravagance. De Morgan, in his exploration of theroyal tombs of the XIIth Dynasty at Dahshur, found indubitableevidence that they had been systematically robbed of their treasuresby the emissaries of Rameses II. Plate VI.) SCARABS OF THE NEW KINGDOM. 79 272. Blue pottery ring. Supplies us with the first cartouche ofRameses II O O £-—, mmm j Ra • user ■ Maat ■ setep en Ra. Powerful is the truth of Ra. Chosen of Ra.
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COLOSSAL STATUES OF RAMESES II, ABU SIMBEL, NUBIA. 271, another blue pottery ring, gives us his second cartouche , Ra meses, beloved of Amen O M /vwyvAA 17 seems meant for Rameses II, but the inscription is blundered. 498. First cartouche of Rameses, as No. 272 above. Cynocephalusof Thoth on an altar, between the king and goddess Maat,with extended wings, > — \ X37 underneath. Fine scarab. 253. RAMESES II, Ren amulet, with the two cartouches ofRameses differing on each side, as on those above. 68. Scarab, with second cartouche, Rameses II. Above, wingeddisc. Supporters—Uraeus with Hathor and Isis head-dress, and T repeated. So THE SACRED BEETLE. (Plate VI. O (?) 0 ^ \\ (?) 258. Nefert • ary, wife of Rameses II, This was a royal princess, before her union with Rameses,and some have thought that she was the Pharaohsdaughter who found Moses, and adopting him for her son,sent him to the University of Heliopolis to learn all thewisdom of the Egyptians. 255. PASER, Vizier of Ramese

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