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State Hermitage Museum, Petersburg, via GEM
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"Besides the Seth-animal, the ass and the pig, the oryx antilope,
the gazelle, the crocodile, the hippopotamus and the fish can also
be accounted animals of Seth.", TeVelde, _Seth, God of Confusion_, page 26 The GEM website says this about faience: "Faience objects have been found from as early as the late Predynastic Period and the Archaic Period (1st and 2nd Dynasties), mainly beads, tiles and small votive objects. Faience objects continued to be produced in the centuries to follow. The majority of the objects found date from the New Kingdom, and especially from the Late Period. Faience consists for more than 90% of silica, which is found in sand and crushed quartzite. An alkali was then added, such as natron, as well as some lime and a colouring agent, usually crushed copper. The latter gives faience its typical blue-green colour. Water was added to form a paste that could be modelled with the hand, or pushed into a mould. Before the object was fired it could be decorated either with black paint or by carving patterns into it. It was also possible to add inlays of another faience which fired a different colour." Here's a tiny scarab now at the British Museum:
 Glazed steatite scarab, 18th Dynasty (?) Width: 0.55 centimetres, Height: 1.22 centimetres Registration number: 1903,0512.90 BM/Big number: 37738
"Glazed steatite scarab, elytra marked with double suture, feathered legs, longitudinally pierced, base decorated with representation of Seth." W.M. Flinders Petrie illustrates several scarabs found in _HYKSOS AND ISRAELITE CITIES_, one of which is a definite Set: |
 PL. XXXIII. "The greater part of the scarabs were found loose in the town rubbish, there being but few in the late cemetery which we excavated." "14 with the sphinx, 15 with the crio-sphinx, 16 with Set, and 17 with Mentu, are probably all of Ramessu II."
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