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Librarian, Being an Account of Scarce, Valuable, and Useful English Books, Manuscript Libraries, Public Records (1)
Librarian Being an Account of Scarce Valuable and Useful English Books Manuscript Libraries Public Records - 1 Author:James Savage Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1808 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a m... more »illion books for free. Excerpt: ANTIQUE STATUE. This graceful figure gives room for two opinions, equally plausible, ft may be taken for the Genius of Hercules, from the attributes belonging to him. We find in various monuments, and particularly in some paintings of Herculaneum, the Genii of different deities represented in the same manner. It might likewise be conceived an image of Love expressing his victory over the, son of Alcmena. The peculiarity of his attitude seems to enforce this idea, for the singular manner in which the lion's skin hangs over his shoulders, and the club is placed on his head, gives those attributes the appearance of trophies. Plate X. ANTIQUE STATUE OF. BASALTES, REPRESENTING AN EGYPTIAN PRIEST. The Antique Statue engraved in this plate is a piece of fine sculpture, and merits the attention of every person of taste ; it is one of those statues termed Iconics, being evidently a Portrait of an Egyptian Priest. In the Museum Capitolinum there is a figure in many respects similar, and of exquisite workmanship. The image in the plate is bare headed, and does not only appear beardless, but has likewise the head shaved close, according to the custom of the Egyptian Priests, who, as Herodotus mentions, used to trim both their beards and hair quite close. The pilaster that supports the back of the statue, is in the form of an obelisk, which terminates in the hinder part of the neck, about the Os Occipitis, which may lead us to conjecture that it served the purpose of a Gnomon. The hieroglyphics that cover it allude to the Egyptian worship ; hence we see various sacred animals, and among others the fal...« less