{"collection":"egy","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/egy/hh/hh021.htm","path":"egy/hh/hh021.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/egy/hh/hh021.htm","text":"Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]\nTo denote a watchful person, or even a guard, they pourtray the HEAD OF A LION, because the lion, when awake, closes his eyes, but when asleep keeps them open, which is a sign of watching. Wherefore at the gates of the temples they have symbolically appropriated lions as guardians.\nI. III. Andro-Sphinxes, and Crio-Sphinxes, were almost universally placed in the dromos of a temple. The magnificent lions, presented by Lord Prudhoe to the British Museum, are from Napata, now Gebel Burkel.","title":"Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book I: XIX. How They Denote a Watchful Person","type":"page"}