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By the Greeks, with whom we are at present concerned, its use was occasional, and about 500 B.C. it was superseded by the scarabaeoid.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

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

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

The scarabaeoid form does not occur in Etruscan deposits.