 | Richard Turner - 1814 - 300 pages
...Oftris and Ifis ; he is always painted with a finger on his mouth. J|>, How is he painted ? A. Almoft naked, in the figure of a boy, crowned with an Egyptian mitre; in his left hand is a horn of plenty, while a finger of his right hand is upon his lip, denoting the... | |
 | François Pomey - 1823 - 370 pages
...Isis. They offered the first fruits of the lentils and pulse to him. They consecrated the tree persea to him ; because the leaves of it were shaped like...with an Egyptian mitre, which ended at the points as k were in two buds; he held in his left hand a horn of plenty, while a finger of his right hand was... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1837 - 372 pages
...among the Romans who placed his statues at the entrance of their temples. He was usually represented in the figure of a boy, crowned with an Egyptian mitre,...which ended at the points as it were in two buds; in his left hand he held a horn of plenty, while a finger of his right hand was fixed upon his lips... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1841 - 806 pages
...among the Romans, who placed his statues at the entrance of their temples. He was usually represented in the figure of a boy, crowned with an Egyptian mitre, which ended at the points as it were in two buds ; in his left hand he held a horn of plenty, while a finger of his right hand was fixed upon his lips... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1844 - 780 pages
...among the Romans, who placed his statues at the entrance of their temples. He was usually represented in the figure of a boy, crowned with an Egyptian mitre, which ended at the points ns it were m two buds ; in his left hand he held a horn of plenty, while a finger of his right hand... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1851 - 318 pages
...fruits of the lentils and pulse. The tree tailed Persea was consecrated to him, because its leaves were shaped like a tongue, and the fruit like a heart. He was depicted as a naked boy, crowned with an Egyptian mitre. He held in his left hand the horn of plenty,... | |
 | George Oliver - 1846 - 636 pages
...the tree perse 1o him, beeause the leaves of it were shaped like a tongue. He WHS painted naked, and in the figure of a boy, crowned with an Egyptian mitre, which ended at the points as it were in two bnds ; he held in his left hand a horn of plenty, whilst a finger of his right hand was upon his lip,... | |
 | Paschal Donaldson - 1854 - 124 pages
...Isis. They offered the first fruits of the lentils and pulse to hiniThey consecrated the tree pcrsea to him : because the leaves of it were shaped like a tongue, and the fruit like a heart. He was represented as a boy, crowned with an Egyptian mitre, which ended at the points as it were in two buds:... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1860 - 388 pages
...among the Romans, who placed his statues at the entrance of their temples. He was usually represented in the figure of a boy, crowned with an Egyptian mitre, which ended at the points as it were m two buds ; in his left hand he held a horn of plenty, while a finger of his right hand was fixed... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett, DeRobingne Mortimer Bennett - 1880 - 876 pages
...of Isis. They offered the first fruits of lentils and pulse to him. They consecrated the tree persea to him, because the leaves of it were shaped like...naked in the figure of a boy, crowned with an Egyptian miter, which ended at the points, as it were, in two beads. He held in his left hand a horn of plenty,... | |
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Egyptian mitre, which ended at the points as it were in two buds ; he held in his left hand a horn of plenty, while a finger of his right hand was upon his lip, thereby commanding silence. 