King, C. W. (Charles William), 1818-1888 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 392
( 369 ) … FIGURE KINGS. The fashion of wearing on the fingers figures of Egyptian deities, thusridiculed by Pliny (xxxiii. 12) : Jam vero et Harpocratem, statuasqueiEgyptiorum minimum in digitis viri quoque portare incipiunt, hasleft us a beautiful specimen, to be seen in the Case of scarabei in theBritish…
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