A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . quently representative of some object, as an ani-mal, a weapon, a utensil, or the like ; or else asimple zigzag, circle, parallelogitim, oval, or simi-lar conventional representation of a well-knownobject too complex to be readily represented;standing for a sound as a syllable, and in thisway forming part of an inscrijition. The termsignifies sacred cutting, and originated in thebelief that the Egyptian figure writing, to whichwas first applied the name hieroglyphic, wasexclusively religious in character. S
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . quently representative of some object, as an ani-mal, a weapon, a utensil, or the like ; or else asimple zigzag, circle, parallelogitim, oval, or simi-lar conventional representation of a well-knownobject too complex to be readily represented;standing for a sound as a syllable, and in thisway forming part of an inscrijition. The termsignifies sacred cutting, and originated in thebelief that the Egyptian figure writing, to whichwas first applied the name hieroglyphic, wasexclusively religious in character. SucJi writ-ing ditters from Chinese syllabic -m-iting in thateach figure re])resents something, and is not amerely conventional mark ; and in decorativeand ornamental work it requires to be enclosedin a decided frtinie in order to avoid a scattereiland dislocated look. It is proliably much easierto make a statelier and eftective design of a se-ries of Chinese characters or of Arabic lettersthan to use hieroglyphs successfully in tlie sameway; but the Egyptian use of the last-named378. HERSE: OVER A TOMB AT MONASTERY OF NONNBERG, NEAR SALZBTTRG, AUSTRIA. 379 380 HIEROGLYPHIC metlinil of WTiting shows liow uiucli ciin lip doiioin this latter way hy an artistii; people. (Ioni-]iaic Cartouche.) — R. S. HIEROGLYPHIC. ^1. Exiiiesscd in , as a sentence or passage. B. of hieroglyphs, as an inscriji-tion of an Egyptian obelisk or pylon, or a Mexi-can or South American temple. HIERON. In classical, especially Greek,archaology, a holy place of any kind, es])eciallya temenos; that is to say, the sacred enclosureof a temple or shrine. The hieron of Asklepiosat Epidauros, that of Zeus at Olymjiia, that ofApollo at Delphi, and that of Hera at Argoswere celebrated in antiquity for the crowd ofinteresting buildings, monuments, statues, andother works of art which they contained, anileach of these has been more or less thoroughlyexplored l>y modern archreologists. HI
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