hhe had founded. There was a radical distinction between theGreek sphinx and that of the Egyptians. The latter projDoundedno enigma to the passer-by, and the author of the treatise. UponIsis and Osiris was in sympathy with his times when he wrote : There was nothing behind the mysteries of the… … Fig. 237.—Bronze lion, Boulak, Drawn by Bourgoin. under an enigmatic form. Evidently, the Egyptians did notmean so much as is sometimes thought. ^ We have already reproduced many examples of what may becalled the classic form of sphinx, his head covered with the klaftand his paws extended before…
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