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Asia, and India. The inscription on 
the broken statue, of “‘ King of Kings,” 
was that which Sesostris engraved on 
various pillars in the conquered coun- 
tries; and the scornful representation 
of his prisoners, without hands, agrees 
with similar monumental columns set 
up by him. The people pourtrayed in 
the extant paintings are evidently Scy- 
thians, Medes, and Ethiopians. His 
name was SerHos or SerHosis, whence 
the Greeks made Srsosrris, and the 
Hebrews Susac (the first). It is sup- 
posed by Newton and Whiston, that he 
was the Pharoah who pursued the 
Israelites, and perished in the Red Sea. 
He was struck with blindness, Diodorus 
says ; and becoming the voluntary occa- 
sion of his own death, the priests and 
people deified him for his self-devotion. 
He was, therefore, probably deified, as 
Seraris or Tyruon, having expelled 
his brother Armaes, and consigned his 
grandson Perseus to an ark. Typhon 
was struck with a thunderbolt, say the 
Egyptian annals, and his blood ran out 
at Heropolis, close to where the Israe- 
lites passed the Red Sea; and was 
drowned in the Lake Sciton, near the 
same quarter. — 
As the conqueror of India, he is re- 
presented in the act of being presented 
to the gods (in one of the copied paint- 
ings of Denon), with the plaited hair 
peculiar to the Indian Bacchus. When 
he returned from his expedition, he is 
recorded to have dedicated a gilt ship, 
280 feet long, to Osiris. Of this dedi- 
cation, Denon also has taken a copy 
from the paintings of the Island of 
Elephanta. It must be remarked, that 
all the painted sculptures at Luxore, at 
the Memnonium, and at Elephanta, 
represent the same individual con- 
queror. It would be curious if an ex- 
act portrait of the Great Sesostris 
should thus have come down to us. 
It has nothing Nubian or Coptic about 
it; and though somewhat approaching 
the regularity of the Greek Ideal, is 
evidently a portrait. It is mild, pleas- 
ing, and heroic; and not much unlike, 
in profile, that of Buonaparte. 
If, then, the great statue broken in 
the middle, as was recorded of Mem- 
non’s, and of which the head and bust 
remain in the Caryatide Court of the 
Museum, or the vocal statue set up in 
the Serapium of Thebes by PHame- 
noru (who lived at the time of the 
Trojan siege) in honour of SxEruosis 
IsmENDEs, the rage of Cambyses against 
The Memnonium.—Cognominal Puns of Heraldry. 
(July 1, 
Egypt, and particularly against the 
statue of the conqueror of his country, 
is explained, 
The extent of the desolation, and the 
precise nature of it, was distinctly set 
forth by Jeremiah the prophet, and in 
language full of curious allusion to the 
fire-worship, or Sabeanism—the desola- 
tion caused by the Shepherd-king, in 
former ages—and the BREAKING OF THE 
Imaces or THE Sun (BETHSHEMESH, oF 
Szrarium), of which, undoubtedly, that . 
of Memnon was one. 
“ And I will kindle a rrrE in the tem- 
ples of the Egyptian gods, and he (Cam- 
byses) shall burn them (the temples), and 
carry them (the idols) away captive: and 
he shall array himself with the land of 
Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his gar- 
ment. He shall Break also the IMAGEs of 
BETHSHEMESH, and the houses of the gods 
of Egypt shall he burn with fire.” 
—=_>— 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
The Cocnominat Pons of HERAtpry. 
ERALDRY is a_hieroglyphical 
art; and since the distinction of 
real wit from punning is defined to be a 
pleasing representation of ideas, as com- 
pared with a whimsical combination of 
sounds, we should class such heraldic 
jeux @esprit (some highly whimsical), 
by which an object, whether animate or 
inanimate, is made to represent a man’s 
name, by similarity of sound, under the 
appellation of Pictural or Heraldic Puns, 
For example— 
The Lyonses, Lords of 
Glamis, bore-----++-++ A Lion in their Arms. 
Roger, Lord Malmain -- Three Hands argent. 
The Lords Martel ------ Three Hammers: from 
Marteau. 
The Veres «+--+ +++-++00% A Boar: from Verres. 
The Martins. ----------- Three Martins. 
Lord Ross---+++++-+++++5 Taree Horse-collars: from 
Ross, a barb. 
The Buijlers and Bullens Three Bulls’ Heads 
The Metcalfs ---+--+++++ Three Calves. 
The Eagle Family ------ Three Eaglets. 
The Ferrerses «+---++-+-+ Three Horse-shoes: from 
Farriery. 
The Lucases-+++-+-++++ Three Tench: from Luca. 
The Arundels -----+-+++ Nine Swallows: from Hi- 
rondelle. . 
The Monks -----+-+++++« A Demi-Monk. 
The Stourtons -+-----+-- Six Fountains of the River 
Stour. 
The Tyrwhits ---------- Three Tirwhits, or Lap 
wings. 
The Beartons, or Bartons Thvee Bears’ heads. 
The Montacutes-------- A pointed Mountain: from 
Mons Acutus. 
The Highmoors -----+-- Two Moorcocks. 
The Lockharts -+++++-- A Heart in the Ring of a 
Padioek. 
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