...seated on a crook, in one hand a flail, and in the other a small crook ; and upon the altar sits a monster with the body of a lion and the head of a boar, almost in contact with the lotus, upon whose leaves four mummy-like figures are seen, one with...

...seated on a crook, in one hand a flail, and in the other a small crook ; and upon the altar sits a monster with the body of a lion and the head of a boar, almost in contact with the lotus, upon whose leaves four mummy-like figures are seen, one with...

...seated on a crook, in one hand a flail, and in the other a small crook ; and upon the altar sits a monster with the body of a lion and the head of a boar, almost in contact with the lotus, upon whose leaves four mummy-like figures are seen, one with...

...dragged it. Before every temple were two rows of sphynxes. The sphynx was, as perhaps you know, a figure with the body of a lion and the head of a man or of a woman. The sphynxes of Thebes had, some of them, the heads of rams. Yonder palace is called...

...hewn, cut, and polished, from a reddish solid limestone rock, and resting in its original position. With the body of a lion, and the head of a man, emblematic of strength and wisdom, it has gazed coldly, with prophetic eye, for thousands of years,...

...deity, to whom the temple belonged, was the enormous Sphinx, 190 feet in length, hewn out of the rock, with the body of a lion and the head of a man. From the memorial stone before it we learn that it symbolized the god Harmachu (Armachis of the Greeks),...

...deity, to whom the temple belonged, was the enormous Sphinx, 190 feet in length, hewn out of the rock, with the body of a lion and the head of a man. From the memorial stone before it we learn that it symbolized the god Harmachu (Armachis of the Greeks),...

...General Field-Marshal. Man'tidae. See MANTIS. Mau'tiger, or Mantègre, in Heraldry, a horned momit' with the body of a lion and the head of a man. Mantine'a, an important city of ancient Greece, in ЛгЫи, on the borders of Argolis, famous for...

...Nile, near the site of ancient Memphis, stands the Sphinx, a colossal statue hewn from the solid rock, with the body of a lion and the head of a man, over sixty feet in height and one hundred and forty in length, the paws projecting some fifty feet...

...differs in tincture from the body. Man's Head, is variously represented, viz., in profile, affronte, &c., &c. Mantle. — A long and flowing robe, worn...boar, represented as having its tail hanging down. members of the same family, or of the collateral branches of the same house, which is indicated by...