Scarab Seals Research Articles

Tel Nami, Cyprus, and Egypt: Radiocarbon Dates and Early Middle Bronze Age Chronology

ABSTRACT This article reviews a set of radiocarbon dates for the Middle Bronze strata at Tel Nami, Israel. Employing a Bayesian analysis based on the stratigraphy of the site, I conclude that the results generally coincide with the high radiocarbon chronology for the Middle Bronze Age southern Levant. This result is supported by radiocarbon sequences from Tell el-Dabʿa (Egypt) and Tel Ifshar (Israel) and has significant historical implications for the dating of scarab seals previously attributed to the late Middle Kingdom, and for the earliest contacts between Egypt, the Levant and Cyprus during the Middle Bronze Age.

Seals and Sealings in the Ancient World: Case Studies from the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, and South Asia

Seals and Sealings in the Ancient World: Case Studies from the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, and South Asia

Ancient Egyptian Seals and Scarabs

The Egyptian Scarabs were for their ancient possessors, mainly amulets with powerful images or spells. To the moderns, the Scarab seals are objects of interest, either as emblems of Egyptian religion or specimens of the Egyptian art, while to the archaeologist and historian they are often useful as evidences. We will discuss seals in some of their aspects, and we will show images of some scarabs from the collection at the Egyptian Museum of Torino. A particular aspect of scarab seals, never investigated before, will be also considered: the presence of symmetries in images engraved on them

Comments on Minoan Beetle Images

Images of beetles begin to appear in Minoan Crete early in the Middle Bronze Age. Because one of the earliest manifestations of this phenomenon is in the form of scarab seals that reflect Egyptian prototypes, a natural question involves whether the meaning of this symbol was transferred to Crete along with the imagery. This article examines the beetle images in Crete and considers the evidence for their meanings in the Minoan island. It concludes that the Egyptian symbolism was not transferred to Crete.

Dor and Iron Age Chronology: Scarabs, Ceramic Sequence and 14C

Recently, Stefan Münger proposed that Egyptian so-called 'mass-produced' stamp-seal amulets may be traced to a Tanite origin and dated to the late 21st–early 22nd Egyptian Dynasties. Among these, it has been suggested that some scarabs bear the name of Siamun of the late 21st Dynasty, who ruled in the first half of the 10th century BCE. Since in Palestine these scarab seals first occur in late Iron Age I contexts, Münger suggests that they corroborate the 'low Iron Age chronology', which incorporates most of the 10th century in Iron Age I rather than in Iron Age II. The site of Tel Dor, on Israel's Carmel coast, produced the best stratified group of these scarabs, including one that was identified as bearing the name Siamun. This paper elucidates the archaeological context of these finds and discusses their chronological repercussions vis-à-vis Münger's proposal.

Book Review: Scarab Seals from a Middle to Late Bronze Age Tomb at Pella in Jordan

Book Review: Scarab Seals from a Middle to Late Bronze Age Tomb at Pella in Jordan

Scarab Seals from a Middle to Late Bronze Age Tomb at Pella in Jordan

Scarab Seals from a Middle to Late Bronze Age Tomb at Pella in Jordan

Scarab Seals from a Middle to Late Bronze Age Tomb at Pella in Jordan

Scarab Seals from a Middle to Late Bronze Age Tomb at Pella in Jordan

Studies on Scarab Seals, Volume II: Scarab Seals and Their Contribution to History in the Early Second Millennium B. C.

Studies on Scarab Seals, Volume II: Scarab Seals and Their Contribution to History in the Early Second Millennium B. C.

Studies in Scarab Seals, Vol. I: Pre-XII Dynasty Scarab Amulets

Studies in Scarab Seals, Vol. I: Pre-XII Dynasty Scarab Amulets

Studies on Scarab Seals. Vol. 1. Pre-12th Dynasty Scarab Amulets. W. A. Ward

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsStudies on Scarab Seals. Vol. 1. Pre-12th Dynasty Scarab Amulets. W. A. Ward Siegfried H. HornSiegfried H. Horn Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Near Eastern Studies Volume 41, Number 3Jul., 1982 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/372960 Views: 2Total views on this site Copyright 1982 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Studies on Scarab Seals. Volume I, Pre-12th Dynasty Scarab Amulets

Studies on Scarab Seals. Volume I, Pre-12th Dynasty Scarab Amulets

Historical Scarab Seals from the Art Institute Collection, Chicago

Previous articleNext article FreeHistorical Scarab Seals from the Art Institute Collection, ChicagoGarrett Chatfield PierGarrett Chatfield Pier Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 23, Number 1Oct., 1906 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/369582 Views: 74 Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref Journal History This article was published in The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures (1895-1941), which is continued by the Journal of Near Eastern Studies (1942-present). PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Baruch Brandl, Shlomo Bunimovitz, Zvi Lederman BETH-SHEMESH AND SELLOPOULO: TWO COMMEMORATIVE SCARABS OF AMENHOTEP III AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO AEGEAN CHRONOLOGY, The Annual of the British School at Athens 108 (Jan 2014): 67–95.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068245413000075