Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book II.: LXXXVIII. How a Man That is Providing His Own Tomb
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]
When they would symbolise a man that is providing
his own tomb, they depict an ELEPHANT 1 BURYING ITS OWN TEETH; for when his teeth fall out, he takes them up and buries them.
140:1 Treb. cervum.