. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . No. II. Chap. 175. HIS GIGANTIC SPHINXES. 225 certain stones for the repairs, of a most extraordinary of these he got from the quarries over against Memphis, also the square-eared quadruped, the and with this view the sculptors ofemblem of Seth (fig. 4)

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. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . No. II. Chap. 175. HIS GIGANTIC SPHINXES. 225 certain stones for the repairs, of a most extraordinary of these he got from the quarries over against Memphis, also the square-eared quadruped, the and with this view the sculptors ofemblem of Seth (fig. 4). The unicorn the Nineveh obelisk, and of Persepolisalso occurs in the same early paint- (Ker Porter, i. PI. ), who had never. No. III. No. IV. ings. To this was generally attached seen it, represented it under the formthe idea of great strength (Numb, of a bull, their emblem of strength (Cp. Pausan. ix. 21): but the Egyptianunicorn, even in the early time of the12th dynasty, was the rhinoceros; and

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