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SYMBOLICAL FIGURES OVER 
architraves, &c. which leave no doubt of a covered colonnade 
having overshadowed this principal face of the building. The 
doors that open from the southern side, (e e) are the same in 
depth, and in the subject of their sculptures, as those on the 
north. Here, also, on the higher compartments, (Plate L.) sits 
the royal figure in the usual garb, but attended by the fly-chaser 
alone. The canopy over his head is quite entire, displaying the 
most exquisite workmanship in its fretted fringe, roses, and other 
ornaments. Lions, and the unicorn-bull, fill two rows of it; the 
range of the first being separated by the serpent-winged emblem, 
in like manner as in the mutilated canopy on the other side of the 
building. The aerial figure surmounts the whole, occupying an 
exact fac-simile of the symbol below; the universality of its appear¬ 
ance in the most ancient structures of the East, prevents me from 
giving it the appellation Egyptian, though it was on the temples 
of that country I first saw it, and we are apt to attribute the 
primary use of things to the places where we first notice them. 
Instead of a ring in his hand, the Ferwer , in this bas-relief, 
holds the lotos, an emblem of even more extensive adoption 
than the other. But that ideas of divine, or angelic attributes, 
have been connected from the earliest times with these em¬ 
blematic wings, circles, and radiated ethereal cars, we find in the 
most ancient of all books, divine in its origin ; and so well 
attested by nature, that witnesses to its veracity, even as a history 
of the East, rise up every day in the persons of successive 
travellers. In a former part of this volume, I have already 
remarked on the symbolical wings given to angels, so early 
as the time of Moses, when, by the divine appointment, he 
spread them over the mercy-seat of the ark of the law. De¬ 
scriptions of the like ministers and messengers of the Most High, 
