The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle With a Preliminary Sketch of the History, Erection, Uses, and Signification of Obelisks

CHAPTER IV. (Page 26.) The symbol of the god Horus of Edfu, represented

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as the winged disk of the sun encircled by two Uræus-snakes or cobras.