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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 696578, member: 6370&quot;]Little photo can be found here:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&amp;Area=sd&amp;ID=SP256109" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&amp;Area=sd&amp;ID=SP256109" rel="nofollow">http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&amp;Area=sd&amp;ID=SP256109</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I found this to be an interesting idea regarding these Scarabs or Seals as they are showing up in large quantities:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In trying to wrap my mind around this... Why would there be so many seals or amulets with the Joseph inscription... </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: royalblue">According to the biblical account Joseph was made &quot;second-ruler&quot; of Egypt and was responsible for the administration and distribution of the Wheat in Egypt during the famine. Is it possible that these &quot;ammulets&quot; or seals were used as ration tokens of a sort? Or used to identify individuals that were permitted to receive the Wheat? Why else would there be so many of them showing up?</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: royalblue">The idea of an &quot;identification seal&quot; is interesting, because, in the biblical account Joseph&#039;s brothers go to try to purchase food and they were easily identified as &quot;outsiders&quot;. </span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black">These are obviously very interesting and important historical relics but what purpose they searved is very questionable.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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