[100]. Garstang’s Mahâsna, p. 33.
[101]. Perhaps even earlier.
[102]. See Mace, in Petrie’s Diospolis Parva, p. 39, and cf. Garstang, El Mahâsna, pp. 33 and 34.
[103]. For specimens beyond those figured here, see Petrie, in the Antiquary, XXXII, p. 136, and Garstang, El Mahâsna, Pl. XXXIX.
[104]. See Arthur Evans, in the Annual of the British School at Athens, No. VIII, p. 104.
[105]. The Antiquary, XXXII, p. 37.
[106]. “These stone buttons may eventually prove to have quite an exceptional interest in the history of Aegean art, as the direct progenitors of the lentoid beads so much affected by the Mycenaean engravers.” A. Evans, in Journal of Hellenic Studies, XIV, p. 335.
[107]. Journal of Hellenic Studies, XIV, p. 336.
[108]. The beetle, called in Egyptian Kheper, was the sacred emblem of the god who made all things out of clay.
[109]. Erman, Zaubersprüche für Mutter und Kind, p. 38.