Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 261
ictitious symbol. The animals — which the Egyptians imitated with much naïve and striking truth, even when they composed them of heterogeneous parts, giving the head of an eagle to a griffin, or wings to vipers — were amongst this people not so much real' representations as modes of writing,… … royal cartouche on the crown of the Queen Aah Hotep, mother of Amasis ; when we find two hawks soaring, emblems of the sun, on a breastplate, we can easily understand that in these cases the representations had a solemn and mystic character. What would become of the symbolism of a necklace of…
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