Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . orbidden by the Christianreligion, shared the same fate as those which had been really objectsof worship. The same observations may be applied to No. 37, whichdemonstrates a knowledge of anatomy that woidddo credit to any epoch. The city of Tarsus owed a debt of gratitude toAlexander for having delivered it from the Per-sians at the moment they were going to burn city was built by Alexander in honour of hisfavourite horse : has this fragm
Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . orbidden by the Christianreligion, shared the same fate as those which had been really objectsof worship. The same observations may be applied to No. 37, whichdemonstrates a knowledge of anatomy that woidddo credit to any epoch. The city of Tarsus owed a debt of gratitude toAlexander for having delivered it from the Per-sians at the moment they were going to burn city was built by Alexander in honour of hisfavourite horse : has this fragment any relationto this place ? or is it not natural to conclude, iromthe many remains of horses we find in this collec-tion, that the inhabitants of Tarsus regarded Bu-cephalus with a lavourable eye as the bearer ofhis master in their salvation from thraldom ? Oranother guess may be allowed : Is this one ofthe horses of the Sun, connected witli the worshipof Baal or Apollo ? Such a surmise is supportedby another fragment existing in this collection, which shews the head ofa second horse coupled to it, as if attached to a chariot, and also by the. NO. 37.—HEAD OF AHORSE. HARPOCRATES. 181 many votive memorials of horses limbs. The horse is a device foundon the medals of many Greek cities. We have also the snout of a hippopotamus. The Egyptians repre-sented Typhoa by this animal ; and upon his back they put a hawkfighting with a serpent. This is one of the many proofs of the pre-valence of Egyptian superstitions at Tarsus, owing to the intercoursebetween the learned men of the schools at Tarsus and those of theschools at Alexandria. Out of many beautiful specimens, I have selected one (No. 38),which Mr. Birch has denominated Har-pocrates, who was the same as Horus(of the Egyptians), son of Isis. Bythe Romans he is represented as hold-ing one of his fingers to his mouth, in-timating that the mysteries of religionand philosophy ought never to be re-vealed to the people. As a furt
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