MacatisteEr—On a Series of Scarabei. 269 
X LI.—Eeyrrotocicat Norrs. No. I.—On a Series oF ScaraBpt. 
By AtexanpEr Macauisrer, M.D., F.R.S. (Plate XVIII.) 
[Read, 22nd January, 1883.] 
A serins of Scarabeei, the property of J. R. Garstin, Esq., was lent to 
me for examination, with the history that they had formed a portion of 
Belzoni’s Collection, and, having been purchased therefrom, had been 
mounted as a necklace. There are sixteen, whose inscriptions are as 
follows :— 
1. Length 2cm.; breadth 1:5; green enamel; winged disk; two 
hawks: ‘“ Nefer neter Ser-Ka-Ra nefer anx nefer nub,” ‘The good 
God; Ser-Ka-Ra, Good life of Gold.” Ser-Ka-Ra was the by-name of 
Amenhetp I., the second king of the eighteenth dynasty, who reigned 
about 1600 B.c. Fig. I. 
2. Green enamel; brown-backed ; length 2cm.; breadth 1:2 cm. ; 
scroll bordered: ‘‘ Der pet hetepu ka Har,’ ‘‘ Superintendent of the 
House of Accounts of the Cattle, Horus, or Ab-har.”’ This discon- 
tinuous scroll border I am informed by Dr. Birch is very ancient. 
Fig. II. 
3. Brown enamel; length 2cm.; breadth 1°2cm.; Papyri, the 
crown of the lower country on each side; the wasp, and emblem of 
the south country ‘‘ res’’—the whole probably meaning ‘‘ King of the 
Upper and Lower Country.” Fig. IIT. 
4. Dark-brown stone; broken; deeply cut: ‘‘ Ra nefer ura,” ‘The 
sun guards the good passage.” Fig. LV. 
5. Brown stone; length 1}cem.; breadth 1 em.; criocephalic stand- 
ing figure of Amen, holding any in right hand, and eg in left, with, 
in front, a cartouche inscribed with the name Ramenyeper, the preeno- 
men of Thothmes III., the Great King, the fifth of the eighteenth 
dynasty, who reigned about 1550 B.c. Fig. V. 
6. Small green enamel; 1 cm. long; 7mm. broad; inscribed with 
a scroll having a vefer on each side. The curve is exactly that of the 
profile of the modillion of a Corinthian column. Fig. VI. 
7. Small green enamel; 6mm. long; 8 broad ; inscribed ‘‘ Amen 
neb,” possiblya name. Fig. VII. 
8. A long ellipse, not beetle-like; inscribed Ra neb uat, possibly 
aname; 15mm. long; 6mm. broad. Fig. VILL. 
9. An ornamental urn or patera, with two side uraei and neb 
below. A similar ornament I have seen upon monuments of Uasarkon 
of the twenty-second dynasty, the ‘‘ Zerah”’ of the Book of Kings, 
who reigned in the ninth century B.c. This is not beetle-lke, but 
resembles an ovulum shell. Fig. IX. 
10. Also of green enamel; 10mm. by 6; inscribed with a ureus, 
or symbolic serpent. Fig X. 
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