TUFNELL, Olga. Studies on Scarab Seals. Volume Two: Scarab seals and their contribution to history in the early second millennium B.C.

(Warminster, Wiltshire): Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1984. First edition. Softcover. 29.9 by 21cm. 192 pages. The second and culminating volume of the standard modern corpus of Egyptian scarab seals, providing a comprehensive catalogue and historical analysis of scarabs dating principally from the Twelfth through the Seventeenth Dynasties. Expanding the typological foundation established by William A. Ward in the first volume, Tufnell examines the chronological development, iconography, royal-name scarabs, and archaeological distribution of several thousand examples, demonstrating their value as evidence for the political and cultural history of Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean during the early second millennium B.C. Contributions by Geoffrey T. Martin and William A. Ward further enhance what remains one of the indispensable reference works for the study of Egyptian glyptic art and Middle Kingdom chronology. The work continues to be cited as the standard reference in archaeological publications, museum catalogues, and excavation reports. A very good copy in printed wrappers.