scarabaeoid

By the Greeks, with whom we are at present concerned, its use was occasional, and about 500 B.C. it was superseded by the scarabaeoid.

The scarabaeoid in its turn is abandoned for the simple ring stone.

The scarabaeoid form does not occur in Etruscan deposits.

Compare a cornelian fragment, apparently cut from the back of a scarabaeoid, now in the British Museum.

A chalcedony scarabaeoid from Greece, in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, with a lady at her toilet, attended by her maid.