Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 175
of the forelegs. The rock was cut into this form aboutthe reign of Thotmes IV. On a granite tablet in the temple is theoval of this king. An avenue of Sphinxes formed a usual approachto an Egyptian temple. MYTHOLOGY OF SCULPTURE. 153 The Phoenix is represented under the form of a bird, with… … PHCEXIX. the Sothic period, the great year of the Egyptians, at the end ofwhich, all the planets returned to the same place they occupiedat its commencement. It was a period of 1461 years, whichbrought round to the same seasons, their months and festivals.The story of its rising from its ashes was…
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