oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/SRC/OIP/118/OIP118.html i THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS VOLUME 118 Series Editors Thomas A. Holland and Thomas G. Urban oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/SRC/OIP/118/OIP118.html ii SCARABS, SCARABOIDS, SEALS, AND SEAL IMPRESSIONS FROM MEDINET HABU THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF JOAN G. ROSENBERG ¢µè%è oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/SRC/OIP/118/OIP118.html iii SCARABS, SCARABOIDS, SEALS, AND SEAL IMPRESSIONS FROM MEDINET HABU by EMILY TEETER with Post-pharaonic Stamp Seals and Seal Impressions by T. G. WILFONG Based on the Field Notes of Uvo Hölscher and Rudolf Anthes ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS • VOLUME 118 THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CHICAGO • ILLINOIS oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/SRC/OIP/118/OIP118.html iv SCARABS, SCARABOIDS, SEALS, AND SEAL IMPRESSIONS FROM MEDINET HABU Library of Congress Control Number: 2003103300 ISBN: 1-885923-22-8 ISSN: 0069-3367 The Oriental Institute, Chicago ©2003 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Published 2003. Printed in the United States of America. Series Editors’ Acknowledgments The assistance of Dennis Campbell, Blane Conklin, Lindsay DeCarlo, Simrit Dhesi, Thomas Dousa, Wendy Ennes, Jean Grant, Katie Johnson, Charles E. Jones, John A. Larson, Adam Miglio, Peggy Sanders, Leslie Schramer, and Raymond D. Tindel is acknowledged in the production of this volume. Illustration on the title page is scarab no. 117 (Cairo 59843) and on the spine is stamp seal no. 233 (OIM 14790). Printed by United Graphics, Mattoon, Illinois The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American Na- tional Standard for Information Services — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/SRC/OIP/118/OIP118.html v TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ......................................................................................................................................... vii LIST OF FIGURES......................................................................................................................................................... ix LIST OF PLATES........................................................................................................................................................... ix PREFACE ............................................................................................................................................................ xiii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS............................................................................................................................................... xv BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................................................................... xvii INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................................... 1 EXCAVATION OF MEDINET HABU.......................................................................................................................... 1 Stratigraphy of the Site ..................................................................................................................................... 1 Physical Features Referred to in Excavation Records ..................................................................................... 3 Fellahin Village ......................................................................................................................................... 4 House 1 (Homre House) ........................................................................................................................... 4 Tower-studded Wall .................................................................................................................................. 6 Nilometer ................................................................................................................................................... 6 Dynasty 25–26 Houses.............................................................................................................................. 6 Coptic Houses ............................................................................................................................................ 6 Tandif ......................................................................................................................................................... 6 DOCUMENTATION OF THE EXCAVATION .............................................................................................................. 7 Artifact Field Numbers ..................................................................................................................................... 7 Field Photographs ............................................................................................................................................. 7 Object Registers (Fundliste) ............................................................................................................................ 7 Documentation in Cairo.................................................................................................................................... 9 Anthes’ Notebook ............................................................................................................................................. 9 Tagesbuch ......................................................................................................................................................... 9 Early Catalogs of Objects from Medinet Habu ................................................................................................ 10 Anthes’s Catalog Manuscript .................................................................................................................... 10 Hölscher’s Teilungsliste ............................................................................................................................ 12 Recovery of the Documentation ................................................................................................................ 12 Present Catalog ................................................................................................................................................. 13 Note on Dates Assigned to Artifacts in the Catalog ................................................................................. 13 Note on Size............................................................................................................................................... 15 Note on Photographs and Line Drawings ................................................................................................. 15 Note on Cryptographic Writings ............................................................................................................... 15 Note on Chronology of Decorative Motifs of Scarabs and Scaraboids according to Archaeological Context ...................................................................................................................... 16 CATALOG (NOS. 1–349) ............................................................................................................................................. 21 BUTTONS, COWROIDS, LENTOIDS, PLAQUES, SCARABOIDS, AND SCARABS WITH VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION (NOS. 1–195)................................................................................................................ 21 Plaques with Decoration on Both Sides (Nos. 1–11) ...................................................................................... 21 Buttons, Cowroid, Lentoids, Plaques, Scaraboids, and Scarabs with Name and Motto Inscriptions as Major Motif of Decoration (Nos. 12–83) ................................................................. 26 Royal Name Inscriptions (Nos. 12–51) .................................................................................................... 26 Divine Name Inscriptions (Nos. 52–71) .................................................................................................. 47 Personal Name and Motto Inscriptions (Nos. 72–83) ............................................................................. 57 v oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/SRC/OIP/118/OIP118.html vi SCARABS, SCARABOIDS, SEALS, AND SEAL IMPRESSIONS FROM MEDINET HABU Cowroids, Plaques, Scaraboids, and Scarabs with Anthropomorphic or Zoomorphic Figures (Animals, Birds, Fish and Scorpion, Beetles, and Uraei) as Major Motif of Decoration (Nos. 84–149) ........ 63 Anthropomorphic or Zoomorphic Figures (Nos. 84 –117) ...................................................................... 63 Animals (Nos. 118–127) ........................................................................................................................... 80 Birds (Nos. 128–134) ............................................................................................................................... 85 Fish and Scorpion (Nos. 135–137) ........................................................................................................... 88 Beetles (Nos. 138–143) ............................................................................................................................ 90 Uraei (Nos. 144 –149) ............................................................................................................................... 93 Cowroids, Lentoids, Scaraboids,