The only sign approaching the fylfot in Egyptian hieroglyphics that we have met is shown in fig. 3, pl. 41, where it forms one of the hieroglyphs of Isis, but is not very similar to our fylfot.
Mr. Greg says:[164] “In Egypt the fylfot does not occur.” Many other authors say the same. Yet many specimens of the Swastika have been found in Egypt ([figs. 130 to 136]). Professor Goodyear[165] says:
The earliest dated Swastikas are of the third millenium B. C., and occur on the foreign Cyprian and Carian (?) pottery fragments of the time of the twelfth dynasty (in Egypt), discovered by Mr. Flinders Petrie in 1889. (Kahun, Gurob, and Hawara, pl. 27, Nos. 162 and 173.)
Fig. 130.
GREEK VASE SHOWING DEER,
GEESE, AND SWASTIKAS.
Naukratis, Ancient Egypt.
Sixth and fifth centuries, B. C.
Petrie, Third Memoir, Egypt
Exploration Fund, part 1, pl. 4,
fig. 3, and Goodyear,
“Grammar of the Lotus,”
pl. 60, fig. 2.
Fig. 130a.
DETAIL OF VASE
SHOWN IN THE
PRECEDING FIGURE.