Drawing on years at Thebes, centre of the scarab market and of its forgers, the Egyptologist Percy Newberry surveys the seals of ancient Egypt: pre-dynastic cylinder seals, royal signet-rings, button seals and the beetle-shaped scarabs that carried names, titles and charms. Plates illustrate examples from the earliest dynasties onward, with notes on dating and spotting fakes.
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