Preface
Description: Museen, seals, scarabs, Egypt, Near Eastern
names (2050) king (1019) seals (405) ancient (359) anes (30) near eastern (5) cylinder seals (4) scarabs (3) stamp seals (3) royal-name scarabs (2)
Collecting seals and scarabs is a worldwide hobby of many people. Unfortunately many offered objects, especially on Ebay, are fakes. (See Menu: Fakes on Ebay) The authentic pieces very often are looted from Near Eastern sites. Nevertheless collecting these objects is possible and a very interesting subject so why not sharing some of our pieces with the public on this webpage ? Of course it can't show a full development of Near Eastern seals and scarabs. Only a few chosen items are shown to give the expert,
Many scarabs in my collection came from Israeli collections. In the late Bronze Age this region was an Egyptian border province and Egyptian officials, soldiers and most probably their families lived in the garrisons in Canaan. Many of my scarabs have close Ramessid parallels from Israel for example from the cemetery of Tell el-Farah (South) in Israel where graves of the Ramessid time (19 th /20 th Dyn.) have been excavated. A very interesting time in history as it witnessed the struggle between the empir
There is a gallery with faked, dubious and problematic seals and scarabs on this website. Many of these items have an unknown provenance and were sent to me by other collectors. See menu "Fake Gallery" http://www.seal-collector.de/pageID_5325611.html
Preface