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In Notes and Queries, 2nd series, vol. i,i there is a 



Fig. 70.— Boutell's 'He- Fig. 71.— Cussans' 'Hand- Fig. 72. — Seton's 'He- 

 raldry.' No. 231, book of Heraldry.' Fig. raldry in Scotland.' 

 p. 149. 2q6, p. 104. Fig. I, pi. V. 



Note that the first has one ligature, and the second three. 



long discussion about this device 

 confounded with a 

 trefoil, and indeed 

 a trefoil under the 

 pencil of a decora- 

 tive artist might be 

 made to assume the 

 shape of some varie- 

 ties of ' fleur-de-lys.' 

 According to the 

 writer in ' Notes and 

 Queries,' this device 

 has been traced to 



Sometimes it was 



Fig. 73.— Head of Sphinx from ' oum el 

 Aouamid' Syria, pi. 31, fig. 3 (Grammar 

 of the Lotus). 



Constantinople, to Pompei, to the head-dress of Egyptian 

 sphinxes. And indeed here is a sphinx with the emblem 

 on its head-dress (fig. y^). 



1 Pp. 225, 245, 309, 328, 348, 368, 387, 408. 



