eagle, its head finely crested with a beautiful plu-mage, its neck covered with feathers of a goldencolour, and the rest of it purple, with the exceptionof the tail, which is white. The eyes are extremelysparkling like stars. Ptbamid. a building of a pyramidal form.The most ancient people raised… … -ZX tures to serve for monuments. The most famouspyramids of antiquity are those of Egypt.
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![An illustration from Ioannis Pierii Valeriani Bellvnesis Hieroglyphica, sive De sacris Aegypticrvm aliarumq[ue] gentium literis, commentariorum libri LVIII cum duobus alijs ab eruditissimo viro annexis. Accesserunt loco auctarij, Hieroglyphicorum collectanea, ex veteribus & recentioribus auctoribus descripta, & in sex libros digesta. Horapollinis item hieroglyphicorum libri duo, ex postrema Dauidis Hoeschelij correctione. Praetereà eiusdem Pierij declamatiuncula Pro barbis sacerdotum, & reliqua opuscula siue Poemata omnia (1614)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-ioannispieriival14vale-818-454.webp)
