The author has to acknowledge the prompt kindness of Dr. Abbott, in allowing him to take impressions as well from the Suphis-ring as from many others in the Doctor’s collection.
[253] Genesis, ch. 1. v. 26.
[254] Pote’s Inquiry into the Phonetic Reading of the Ashburnham Signet. (Pickering, 1841.)
[255] See Wilkinson’s Manners of the Egyptians, iii. 374.
[256] On the tomb is the sculptured figure of a man bound hand and foot, with a huge lion in the act of springing upon him to devour him. No history could speak more graphically the story of Daniel in the Lion’s Den.—The (American) Family Christian Almanac for 1855.
[257] Fuss’s Roman Antiquities, § 435.
[258] Adams’ Roman Antiquities, 366, (Boyd’s edit.)
[259] Plutarch’s Timoleon.
[260] Introduction to English Antiquities, by Eccleston, 60, 61.
[261] Dugdale.