scarabaeoid

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

By the Greeks, with whom we are at present concerned, its use was occasional, and about 500 B.C. it was superseded by the scarabaeoid.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 proper is a simplification of the scarab, effected by the omission of all details of the beetle.

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

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