FOOTNOTES:
[110] Collections d'Antiquités Égypt. au Caire, p. 1 et seq.
[111] Thebes; its Tombs and their Tenants, ancient and modern. London, 1862.
[112] Ibid., pp. 253-255. Comp. Gliddon, Indigenous Races, p. 192 note.
IX.[ToC]
PHŒNICIAN SCARABS. MANUFACTURED MOSTLY AS ARTICLE OF TRADE. USED INSCRIBED SCARABS AS SEALS IN COMMERCIAL AND OTHER TRANSACTIONS. MANY SCARABS FOUND IN SARDINIA.
Archæologists frequently find in lands bordering on the shores of the Mediterranean sea, scarabs and scarabeoids, on which are engraved subjects which are Egyptian, Chaldean, Assyrian, Hittite or Persian; they were intended apparently to be used as signets, and were incised with short inscriptions in Phœnician, and sometimes, in Aramaic or in Hebrew, giving the name of the owner of the signet.