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The scarab beetle was the symbol of the god Khopri and represeented new life and resurrection. Ordinary scarabs, or paste or stone, were simply seals and were worn as amulets by everybody in later times. Scarabs were also used as amulets on mummies…

Marble slab, inscribed with signs of the Zodiac, from ruins of Dara, Mesopotamia.

Basalt slab inscribed with Greek magical gnostic names. From Nisibis, Mesopotamia.

Marble statuette (dark green?) of an equestrian soldier ( imperfect).

Warded key.

Octagonal tray engraved with figure of foot showing Gnostic symbols, in black marble.

Ivory bodkin, 3 holes in broad end. Hunt (1982) quotes Wilson's journals: 'a bodkin of an Athenian lady'.

Bronze ointment scoop.

Item: spoon probe