310 ' FROM GRAND CAIRO TO ROSETTA. 
CHAP, symbols ; a part only of the graved work being 
_. completed, and the rest of the figures sketched, 
as delineations upon the stone, with great 
ingenuity and accuracy, preparatory to their 
incision. Another remarkable circumstance, 
but generally characterizing the best hierogly- 
phical sculpture, may be distinctly observed 
upon this Torso. Although the engraved cha- 
racters be all of them intagliated, and may be 
considered as intaglios, yet a bold convexity is 
perceivable within each figure, rising in relief 
from the inferior surface, like the workmanship 
of a Cameo\ There is a third point of view in 
which this curious fragment of the finest sculp- 
ture of Egypt is also entitled to more particular 
regard ; not only in the University where it is 
now placed, but from literary men in general, and 
among all those who are interested in Ecdesias- 
Tripie tical history. The very first hieroglyphical cha- 
Sierogrnm " i i i /» i • 
with the racter engraven upon the back oi this statue, is 
t/JcRo&l the Crux ansata; the identical type mentioned 
(l) Johnson writes this word Camaieu, from Chamachiiia ; but it is 
now become sufficiently naturalized, under its present form, to admit 
of its being written according to the common mode of pronouncing 
the word. Nicols, in bis " Lnpidnry," chap.xxv. p. 131, f printed at 
Cambridge in 1652,) wrote it both Chamehuia, and Cameus, The 
Editors oi the Edinburgh Encj/clopedia, vol.\. Parti. Edin. 1912, 
have adopted the word C'amdo, 
