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Title: Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884
Subjects: Art, Ancient Archaeology
Publisher: London, Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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exception 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 wingspartly raised, and seated upon its open claws, having at the backof its head a small tnft of feathers, and in front it raises two humanarms, as if in an attitude of prayer. It is supposed to be a type of
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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 a later invention,according to Sir G. Wilkinson the Egyptian name seems to beni-ENE^ or ENE3, signifying sseculum, or a period of years. The examples we have here given will be sufficient to give ageneral idea of the representation of the Egyptian deities under thethree forms above indicated, further and more accurate informationwill be found in the works of Sir Gardner Wilkinson and of theChevalier Bunsen. Kings and Queens.—The figures of kings and queens which arefound in Egyptian monuments of all kinds, are represented in apure human form, nude, dressed, or mummified. For the kings,as for the gods, an appendage to the chin, or plaited beard, dis-tinguished them from the queens,

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