. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . The Vizeer. The Kinq. Fio. 24. and once again tower majestically in the Louvre Museum,102 aftersome 2515 years of oblivion. We present a rough tracing (Fig. 24) of Bottas earliest lithographs,wherein the head-dress is tinted red, likethe original bas-relief. It was established, twenty years ago,by Rosellini, that, in Egyptian art, theandro-sphinxes (human head on lionsbody, symbolical of royalty,
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . The Vizeer. The Kinq. Fio. 24. and once again tower majestically in the Louvre Museum,102 aftersome 2515 years of oblivion. We present a rough tracing (Fig. 24) of Bottas earliest lithographs,wherein the head-dress is tinted red, likethe original bas-relief. It was established, twenty years ago,by Rosellini, that, in Egyptian art, theandro-sphinxes (human head on lionsbody, symbolical of royalty,) always bearthe likenesses of the kings or queens inwhose reign they were chiselled. Thus,were the features of the Great Sphinx atthe pyramids of Memphis adequatelypreserved, we should probably beholdthe lost portrait of AAHMES, founderof the XVIIth dynasty, in the seven-teenth century b. c. ; to whom, underthe Greek form of Amasis, a tradition inPlinys time still attributed this symbol sphinx, by the GreeksIT. Saeqan, (Isaiah, xx. 1).B. C. 710 to 668. 130 PHYSICAL HISTORY OF THE JEWS. Fig. 25. reputed to be female, and by Wilkinson to be always male in Egypt,has the body of a lion when (e. g. in the splendid granite Sphinx ofRamses at the Louvre,) it typifies the king; or of a lioness, (as inMaut-hem-was at Turin,) when the queen. Another rule of Egyp-tian art is, that the human faces of Divinities wear the portrait of thereigning monarch. Now, in Assyrian sculpture — an offshoot ofNilotic art—the same rules hold good. Those gigantic human-headedbulls, and those superb winged-gods, of scenes in which human-faceddeities are introduced, assume the portraits ofthe sovereigns in whose age they were carved :truths easily verified by comparison of thefolio plates of Flandin or of Layard. Inconsequence, regretting the necessity for reduc-tion of size, we submit, from one of the winged-bulls at Paris104 the likeness (Fig. 25) of himwhose cuneatic legend reads: —
Size: 1781px × 1402px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1850, bookpublisherphiladelphialippin
