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Scarabs, Scaraboids, Seals and Seal Impressions from Medinet Habu

by Emily Teeter and T.G. Wilfong

Medinet Habu in western Thebes (modern Luxor, Egypt) is dominated by the great mortuary temples of King Ramesses III (ca. 1182 BC), and Kings Aye and Horemheb (ca. 1324-1293 BC). It served as the seat of the regional government in the Late New Kingdom, and an important Coptic Christian community grew up within its great fortification walls. For nearly 1,500 years Medinet Habu played a central role in Egyptian religion, life, and politics. In 1924, the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago began the documentation of Medinet Habu, but the last facet of the documentation - the publication of thousands of objects excavated at the site - was interrupted by World War II. This book, the first of a projected multiple volume series, marks the resurrection of the project to publish the small finds. It includes a catalogue of 349 scarabs, scaraboids (including lentoids, cowroids, and buttons), heart scarabs and their Sons of Horus amulets, heart amulets, seals, and seal impressions on bullae, vessel stoppers, amphora handles, mudbricks, and funerary cones that date from approximately 1470 BC to the eighth century AD. Each object is described and illustrated and, whenever possible, placed in its original archaeological context. These scarabs and scaraboids comprise one of the largest groups of such material excavated from any site in Egypt. 236p, 3 b/w figs, 110 b/w pls (Oriental Institute Publications 118, Oriental Institute 2003)

Review Quotes

"...a clear, meticulously researched, well-illustrated, and user-friendly volume."

Joyce Haynes
AJA (January 2006)

"Because this is one of the largest excavated groups of these items yet published, it serves as an important source for scholars of both Egyptian temples and the administration of southern Egypt. Because, as Teeter notes, scarabs are notoriously hard to date, it will also serve as a useful reference for dating unexcavated scarabs. The concordance and extensive bibliography provide helpful references for scarabs in general."

Denise M Doxey, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Review, Vol. 30, Issue 2,3 (April, July 2004)

"[a]stately volume [that] expertly publishes the varies series of scarab-seals and amulets, seal-impressions and sundry related minor pieces"

K A Kitchen
Society for Old Testament Study, Book List (2005)

"a valuable tool for any researcher of administration, bureaucracy and economy in Thebes from the New Kingdom to the Late Period."

Kathlyn M Cooney
PalArch (2005)

"[a] sumptuously produced and remarkable book...a great service to Egyptology."

Peter Clayton
Minerva, 15(3) (2004)

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