Wilkinson, John Gardner; Birch, Samuel [Contr.]: The Egyptians in the time of the pharaohs: being a companion to the Crystal Palace Egyptian collections (London, 1857)

OTHER IDEAS FROM EGYPT.

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winged griffin, and the lotus, and even the goose and sun with

(W. 127.)

the Egyptian hieroglyphical zigzag (woodcut 12G)—first pointed
out by Mr. Stuart Poole—and the ibex, and leopard. They
also took the harpy
from the Egyptian soul
flying from the dead—
the llama, or SaJa, of
the Arabs wheu Pagans,
(woodcut 127 ) ; and
the eye, so full of mean-
ing in Egypt, but quite
unconnected with Greek
fable, was Egyptian.

13°. The Medusa, with °^'^
protruded tongue, as in the Metopes of Selinus, was the coun-