Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book II.: XLIX. How a Man Who...
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]
When they would symbolise a man who dwells securely in a city, they depict an EAGLE CONVEYING A STONE; for he takes up a stone, either from the sea or land, and deposits it in his nest, to keep it steady.