300 RUINS OF SAIS. 
CHAP, alluded to by the historian. It is now in the 
VI. -^ 
Vestibule of the University Library at Cam- 
hridge\ One foot only belonging to the statue 
now remains upon this pedestal. What renders 
it peculiarly interesting is, that it exhibits, 
among the characters of an hieroglyphic tablet 
which is quite entire, a perfect representation 
of the Ibis. The other signs are also such accu- 
rate figures of visible objects, that almost all 
their archetypes may be enumerated ; either by 
comparing them with things found among bar- 
barous nations; or with natural phaenomena; or 
with existing antiquities ; or by explaining the 
ideas they are intended to convey, according to 
facts derived from the study of antiquities in 
general. That the Reader may therefore com- 
pare a few observations upon this subject with 
an engraved representation of these hieroglyphics, 
they will be given according to a numerical 
order corresponding with ciphers upon the 
Plate. 
(1) See " Greek Marbles," No. II. p. 3. Camh. 1809. 
