A type of finger ring made in ancient Egypt, and in Phoenicia, Greece, and Etruria, with an ornament in the form of a scarab. Such rings were made in severalforms: 1. The ring was a stirrup-shaped hoop with flattened pierced ends and a scarab was attached by a wire run through it so that the scarab could revolve when worn on a finger, with the underside(engraved with the name or device of the owner) turned up when to be used as a seal and the beetle side up when worn as an ornament.

Scarab ring(2)

A non-swivelling type, with the outside of the ring of the same stirrup shape and set with a scarab, but the inside circular to fit the finger; some such ringswere made of two hoops united at the top and having cut on the long oblong bezel the name and titles, in hieroglyphs, of the owner.

Scarab ring(3)

A circular type, similar to a modern signet ring, with an engraved scarab.