$H San. Assyria

An unidentified Assyrian deity. (1876c1)

$H Sana.

A Himyaritic c= apital city in South-western Arabia, from whe= nce many bronze inscriptions have been recovered. (1876c1)<= /p>

$H Sana-kha. Assyria

An Assyrian city which revolted to Assurdan, and was reconquered<= /span> by Samas-Rimmon. Its name was at one time translated Arapkha, but it is believed errone= ously. (1876c1)

$H Sana-panu. Babylonia

The capital of Baby= lonia under Nabu-u-sabsi. It was destroyed by Tiglath Pileser II. (18= 76c1)

$H Sana-Su.

Sana-Su. Or Sanisu. The king of Kipa-bara-taka, a district bordering upon Assyria<= /st1:place>, which was rendered tributary by Samsi-Vul IV. (1876c1)

$H Sanbatha.

A Himyaritic c= ity mentioned by Ptolemy. It is supposed to have been Sh= abwat, which see. (1876c1)

<= o:p>

$H Sancte‑bell and Sanctus Bell.

Sancte‑bell. A bell, generally of silver, carried = in the services of the Roman Catholic Church and rung to call attention to certain solemn parts of the service. In England before the Reformat= ion a sancte‑bell was sometimes hung in a small bel= l‑turret.(1891a1)

Sanctus Bell, Chr= . A fixed bell rung at the elevation of the Host, at the words "sanctus= , sanctus, sanctus, Deus Sabaoth." It was fixed outside the church, generally on the eastern gable of the na= ve. (See SACRING BELL.) (2) In the absence of a fixed bell, small bells carried by acolytes, often the subject of rich ornamentation, sometimes consisting of a carillon of three small bells hidden within one large one, thus blending their sounds.(1883m1)

$H Sandal.

Sandal. (See CENDAL.) (1883m1)

(Cost.) The simplest kind of footgear, consisting only o= f a sole and leather‑thongs. Among the Greeks and Romans sandals were sometimes richly decorated and their thongs ornamented with jewels.(1891a= 1)

Egypt<= span lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-= ansi-language: EN-GB'>. Formed generally of papyrus, palm bast, or leather. They were fastened on with two straps, one passing over the inst= ep and the other between the toes. It was not etiquette to wear them in the = presence of a superior. The use of sandals was almost entirely confined to men.(1902b1)

$H Sandalium.

Gr. and R. (<= span style=3D'font-family:"WP Greek Courier";mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New = Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-f= ont-family: "WP Greek Courier";mso-no-proof:no'>F"<*V84@<[=3Dsandalion]). A = richly‑ornamented sandal worn exclusively by women.(1883m1)

$H Sandal‑wood.

Ornamental wood high= ly valued for cabinet‑work; when old it becomes yellow and highly odoriferous.(1883m1)

$H Sandapila.

R. A rough kind of b= ier for the poor. (See LECTICA.)(1883m1)

$H Sandarac. =

A resin used for spi= rit varnishes.(1883m1)

$H Sandarri.

A king of Sisir and Kundi. He combined with Abdi-m= ilkutti, king of Zidon, to resist the power of Assyria, but he was defeated, and together with h= is ally beheaded by Esarhaddon after the fall of= Zidon. (1876c1)

$H Sandasarmi.

A king of Cilicia. He paid tribute to Assurbanipal, king of Assyri= a, and sent his daughter also to the harem of that monarch. (1876c1)

$H Sandbag. Engraving

(Engrav.) A bag covered with leather and stuffed with sand is used by engravers to rest their block or plate upon. It enables them to get their work at whatever angle they like. [Cushion.] ILLUS. sandbag(1891a1)

<= /o:p>

$H Sandracottus.

The Greek form of the Hindu royal name Chandragupta, which see. (1876c1)=

$H Sandvent.

An earthy matter, which covers the surface of blocks of stone when they come out of the quarry. This sandven= t must be removed before the stones are cut and laid in courses or decorate= d, as it would not offer sufficient resistance to time and weather.(1891a1)<= o:p>

$H Sandyx.

Gr. FV<*L>[=3Dsandux]. A Lydi= an tunic, of a fine and transparent texture, dyed with the juice of the sandyx, which gave it a flesh‑coloured tint.(1883m1)

$H Sangamitta.

The sister of the emperor Asoka, and one of the first Buddhist missionaries to Ceylon. See Asoka and Mahindo. (1876c1)<= /span>

$H Sangara.

The king of Carchemish. He was one of the kings of the Hittites who submitted and paid tribute to Assurnazirpal. His name is also written Sangala; and in most of these names, both Assyrian = and Egyptian, the l and the r are used indifferently. Except= in those cases where the Semitic name has come down to us in a Greek form, t= he exact phonology cannot be ascertained. (1876c1)

$H = Sang‑réal.

(Saint Graal). The Holy Grail = said to have been brought to England by Joseph of Arimathea. The legend is that it= is an emerald cup, or the cup used at the Last Supper, containing the real (or = it may mean "royal") Blood (sang‑réel or réal). =

"The cup, the c= up itself, from which our Lord Drank at the last sad supper with his own.&qu= ot; (Tennyson.)(1883m1)

$H Sanglier. Heraldry

Her. A wild boar.(18= 83m1)

$H Sanguine. =

A deep blood colour, prepared from oxide of iron.(1883m1)

A deep red resembling blood colour. The term also denote= s a blood‑coloured crayon and a drawing executed with this crayon. For instance, we speak of a portrait in sanguine; a sanguine by Watteau.(1891a1)

$H = Sanguinolentae.

(sc. ampullae). Glass vessels found in the catacombs at Rome, containing a red sediment, ascertained by analysis to be blo= od; and canonically pronounced by the Roman Church to be that of the early Christian martyrs in whose tombs it has been found. (The subject is discu= ssed at length by V. Schultze: die Katakomb= en, Leipzig, 1882.)(1883m1)

$H Sanhedrim.

Heb. The supreme council of the Jews, which sat at Jerusalem= in a circular hall, one half of which was within the temple, and the other outside. (Bo= sc.)(1883m1)

$H Sanisu. [See Sana-su - Editor]

$H S-ankh. Egypt

S-ankh. Ankh, "Life." (?) An early Egyptian city. Site unknown. (1876c1)

$H S-ankhua. Egypt

The son of an Egyptian king, but of what k= ing it is not known. (1876c1)

$H Santiago. [See James, = St., the Greater.] (1891a1)

<= o:p>

$H Sanyasi.

A kind of Hindu or Toda hermit. (1876c1)

<= /b>

$H Sap.     Egypt

Sap. A mystical deity who is mentioned in = the XVIIth chapter of the Ritual of the Dead. (1876c1)<= o:p>

Sap. An unknown Egyptian deity. He was the tutelary god of the Oxyrynchite Dome. See also the following. (1876c1)=

$H Sapa-di-bahal.

One of the ten competitors for the crown o= f Arvad after the death of King = Yakinlu. (1876c1)

$H Sa-pakhi.     Egypt

The high-priest of Amen Ra in the reign of King Aspalut of the XXVt= h dynasty. (1876c1)

$H Sapalala.

The king of the Hittites, the father of Marasara, and grandfather of K= hitasira, which see. (1876c1)

$H Sapar.

Another form of the Hittite royal name Separuru, which see. (1876c1)

$H Sa-par.     Egypt

A Theban judge. Period uncertain. (1876c1)=

$H Sape.     Babylonia

A royal city in Babylonia, where Kinziru, the last king of the country, was utterly defeated by Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria. (1876c1)

<= /b>

$H Sap̴= 9;green or Sap green.

Sap green. (Paint.) A pigment obtained from buckthorn berries or the flowers of the blue iris. It is useful and permanent in wa= ter‑colour.(1891a1)

Sap‑green. The= only green vegetable pigment; used in water‑colour<= /span> painting. Obtained by evaporating the juice of the berries of the bucktho= rn, mixed with lime.(1883m1)

$H Sapibel.

A chief town of the G= ambuli, which was originally fortified by Esarhaddon.= It was destroyed by Assurbanipal as a punishment= for the continual revolts of the inhabitants against the Assyrians. (1876c1)<= o:p>

$H Sa-pi-hor.     Egypt

A "Gatekeeper of the Temple of Amen Ra= ," and father of the high-doorkeeper Pet-ament, = which see. (1876c1)

$H Sa-pi-neb.     Egypt

A priest of Khons and "Keeper of the Vestments" in the temple of that deity. Peri= od uncertain. (1876c1)

$H Sa-pi-nito.     Egypt

An Egyptian gentleman, whose statue is in = the Leyden= Museum. (1876c1)<= o:p>

$H Sapphire.

Sapphire. A brilliant and transparent precious stone of a rich blue colour.(1891a1)

Sapphire (Syriac saphilah). The oriental sapphire from Arabia, which has been known from the earliest antiquit= y, was one of the stones on the breastplate of Aaron, and was dedicated to Apollo by the Greeks, by whom it was regarded as the gem of gems ‑ = the sacred stone par excellence. = The sapphires from Bra= zil are also called oriental sapphires. The sapphires of Puy, found in a mountain in Central France,= vary from the deepest to the palest blue, passing sometimes to a reddish blue = or even to a yellowish green. The sapphire, although extremely hard, has been engraved by the ancients. There is a beautiful sapphire among the crown jewels of Russia, representing a draped female figure: the stone is of two tints, and the artist has skilfully used the dark tint for t= he woman and the light for the drapery. (L. Dieulafait.)(1883m1)

$H Sapphire, in Christian art.    (See BLUE.) (1883m1)

$H Sapt.     Egypt

A foreign goddess who was adopted into the= ir mythology by the Egyptians. (1876c1)

$H Sa-pthah.     Egypt

A royal scribe who had judicial charge of = the district of Sais. He was the son of the lady = Meret-pa. Period unknown. (1876c1)

$H Sapululmi.

A king of Patina, who vainly attempted, in conjunction with the other kings of Mesopotamia, to resist the armies of Shalmaneser II., B.C. 859.(1876c1)

$H Sap‑wood.    <= /span>

The soft white wood immediately under the bark of a tree.(1883m1)

$H Sar.     Chaldaea

Sar. In Chaldean astronomy one of the twelve stars of the W= est. (1876c1)

Sar. "King," or "Lord." The Chaldean title of their early monarchs. See also Patesi. (1876c1)

$H Saraballa.

Saraballa, Sarabara. Gr. and R. (= F"DV$"88"[=3Dsaraballa]). Lo= ose trousers, which reached from the waist to the instep, worn by the Parthians, Medes, and Persians.(1883m1)<= /span>

$H Saraband.

Sp. A slow dance der= ived from the Saracens; the music for sarabands, by Corelli and = other old masters, is interesting. (See Chappell's History of Music, &c.)(1883m1)

$H Sarabara.    [See Saraballa= - Editor]

$H = Sarac.     [See Saruc - Editor]

$H Saracenic Architecture.

Saracenic Architecture. (See ALHAMBRAIC, MOORISH, MO= RESCO‑SPANISH.) (1883m1)

Saracenic. (Arch.) A term applie= d to the Moorish style of architecture, such as was employed at the Alhambra Palace at Granada. Richness of colour and elaboration of design are its distinguishing characteristics. All animal forms are excluded from its decorative scheme, and flowers and plants are treated in an emphatically conventional manner.(1891a1)

$H = Saracus.     [See Saruc - Editor]

$H Saradavas.

A city in South-east Assyria which was conquered by Tiglath-Pileser I. (1876c1)

$H Sarapis.

Pers. (= FVD"B4H[=3Ds= arapis]). The tunic of the kings of Persia; it was made of a fine purple‑coloured c= loth, with a white band in front embroidered with gold.(1883m1)

$H = Sarapou.     Egypt

A very late Greco-Egyptian, or rather Romano-Egyptian male proper name. (1876c1)

$H = Sarapous.     Egypt

An Egyptian lady, the wife of Heraclius Soter and mot= her of the lady Tphous, A.D. 127. (1876c1)

$H = Sarasu.

A city of the Hittites, which was sacred to its own local form of the god Sutekh. (1876c1= )

$H = Sarasvati.     Hindu

In Hindu mythology the goddess of speech, = by which the divine will was revealed to man. She was the Sackti of the deity Brahma. (1876c1)

$H = Sarati.

A son of Gagi,= chief of the Medes of Saki. His provinces were desp= oiled by Assurbanipal, king of Assyria. (1876c1)

$H = Saravas.

A Mesopotamian people who were conquered b= y Tiglath-Pileser I. (1876c1)

$H = Sara-ziggar.

Sara-= ziggar. "The Sacrifice of Righteousness" or "of Bel." The Accadian name of the month Nisannu, which see. (1876c1)

$H Sarcenet.

A fine thin woven si= lk. An improved cen= dal, introduced in the 15th century by the Saracens of the south of Spain= ; hence its name. (See CENDAL.)(1883m1)

$H Sarcilis.

Chr. A woollen garment= ‑ not described.(1883m1)

$H Sarcoline.

(Gr. FD>[=3Dsarx], flesh). = Flesh‑coloured.(1883m1)

$H Sarcolite.

A stone of a rose= 209;flesh colour.(1883m1)

$H Sarcophagus (pl. Sarcophagi).

Sarcophagus, Gen. (<= /span>F"D6@NV(@H[=3Dsarkophagos]; <= /span>FD>[=3Dsarx], flesh, a= nd N"(,Ã<[=3Dphagein], to ea= t). A coffin of a limestone called Lapis Assius, in= which the corpse was rapidly consumed. The great sarcophagus called "of Alexander the Great," in the British Museum, is a cele= brated specimen. (See BISOMUS, QUADRISOMUS, and TRISOMUS.)(1883m1)

Sarcophagus. (Arch.) A tomb, in which in ancient times bodies were placed without being burnt. Sarcophagi were made of a special stone which was believed to = have the curious property of eating away flesh. This stone was a kind of pumice stone, found in Troas, and it was said= to complete the destruction of a whole body, except the teeth, in the brief space of forty days. Ancient sarcophagi are often decorated with reliefs, and may be ranked among the most interesti= ng relics of ancient art. In the Middle Ages, the term sarcophagus was appli= ed to tombs in the form of altars, decorated with flutings and sometimes surmounted with statues, either lying or kneeling. 2 ILLUS. sarcoph1, sarcoph2(1891a1)

       &nbs= p;            &= nbsp;           &nbs= p;      <= /o:p>

Egypt= . Sarcophagi. The sarcophagus was the outer stone casing in which the mummy, with its o= ne, two, three, or more wooden coffins, was placed. Several may still be seen= in situ in the tombs, and many h= ave been brought to museums. The workmanship displayed in the fashioning of t= hem is unsurpassable even in these days. They were usually made of the finest= and hardest kind of stone procurable. Various kinds of granite, basalt, and breccia were used, also limestone, and in the case of Seti I., a beautiful semi-transparent alabaster. The design varied with the dynastie= s. At first it was rectangular, with a flat or vaulted lid. From the VIIth to XVIIth Dynasty time the custom of using sarcophagi seems to have been in abeyance. In the XVIIIth Dynasty we find them made in the form of a mummy. Some in succeeding dynasties were shaped like a cartouche; then in the XX= VIth rectangular shape again comes into favour. From this period up to Ptolema= ic times the numerous examples were massive, finely worked and decorated. The inscriptions on early ones were short, recording the names and titles of deceased and the Seten-hetep ta formula (q.v.). Occasionally, however, the sides were sculptured to represent a building with doors and various openings. Later the decorations became more and more elaborate, usually incised or in relief en c= reux, but sometimes entirely in relief. Scenes and long extracts from the "Book of the Dead " form the main subject of the decorations.(1= 902b1)

$H Sard.

Sard. An agate of a reddish colour.(1891a1)

Sard or Carnelian. A brownish‑red variety of chalcedony.(1883m1)

$H Sard‑achates.

A name given by the = ancients to varieties of agate, which contained layers of Sard or carnelian.(1883m1)

$H Sardanapalus I.

A name at one period applied by early Assyriologists to Assur-nazir-= pal, which see. (1876c1)

$H Sardanapalus II.

A name applied by the Greek writers to bot= h Assurbanipal, the son of Esarh= addon, and to his own son Assur-ebil-ili, who burnt himself to death in the palace at the fall of Nineveh. (1876c1)

$H Sardanapalus III.

The name given by some Assyriologists to the king who is generally called Assur-acus, which see. (1876c1)

$H Sardonic Laughter.

A distortion of the = features of the dying, the closing symptom of several fatal diseases; named from t= he poisonous herb Sardonia.(1883m1)

$H Sardonyx or Sard‑onyx.

Sard‑onyx. A p= recious stone composed of alternate layers of carnelian and chalcedony; extensively used for gem‑engraving.(1883m1)=

Sardonyx. A hard siliceous ston= e, which was of a dark tint, such as black or purple, or was made up of stra= ta of white and red. The last‑named variety was highly prized by ancie= nt gem‑engravers, as it could = be so cut that its strata produced the effect of a white cameo on a red ground.(1891a1)

$H Sardel.

Sardel, Sardine, Sardius. A precious stone mentioned in Scripture in the description of Aaron's breastplate.(1883m1)

$H Sardine.    <= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> [See Sardel - Editor]

$H Sardius.    [See Sardel - Editor]

$H Sarduri.

The king of Ararat, or Armenia. He headed the combination of the Syrian states against Tiglath-Pil= eser II., by whom he was utterly defeated under the walls of Kummuha, and compelled to make his escape by night, leaving his entire army of 72,= 950 soldiers and all his baggage in the hands of the victor. (1876c1)

$H Sa-renen.     Egypt

The "Gardener of the House of Perfumes," in the XVIIIth or XIXth dynasty. He was the son of a man named Apap or Apepi. (1876c1)=

$H Sargina.     Babylonia [See Sargon - Editor]

$H Sargon I.     <= /span> Babylonia

Sargon I. Or= Sargina. An early, almost mythical Babylonian king, about the sixteenth century B.C. He was a bastard, born at the city of = Azupirani, and was exposed by his mother, probably at the command of his uncle, in a basket on the river Euphrates. Here he= was found by a husbandman named Akki, who took care of him and taught him agriculture. After some years Sargina became the head of a race of wild or dark people, probably outlaws, by the help of whom he seized the throne of Babylonia, and founded the city of Dur-Sargina. He built a great temple at Agane, and a palace named Ekiam-izillik, which= he established as the capital of his empire, and where he founded a library,= for which the great astronomical cyclopaedia, the Namar-bili, was compiled. He fought with great success against the Elamites and Syrians. After that he= was besieged in his own capital by the Kassi, or men of all countries, whom he ultimately defeated. The events of the rest of his reign are unknown. He = was succeeded by his son Naramsin. (1876c1)

$H Sargon II.     Assyria

Who claimed descent from Bel-bani, an ancient king of Assyria, and took the name of the old Babylonian hero king, was an office= r who usurped the throne of Assyria on the d= eath of Shalmaneser, B. C. 722. His first campaign was against Khumba-nigas, o= f Elam. In B.C. 721-20 he captured S= amaria, carrying away 27,200 of its inhabitants. Ilu-bihdi of Hamath, who had organised a confederacy against him, was defeated and flayed alive in B.C. 720, Hamath colonized by 4300 Assyrians, and Khanun of Gaza and Sibahe of Egypt defeated at Raphia. The Minnians were overthrown in B.C. 719; and t= he allied armies of Pisiris of Carchemish and Mita (Midas) of the Moschi in = B.C. 717; Carchemish, with all its treasures, falling into Sargon's hands. The Armenians, Mosch= i, and Minnians, were defeated in B.C. 716, and the capital of the latter destroyed; and in B.C. 715 the whole country of the Minni was overrun by Sargon, while an expedition was also sent into Ara= bia. In B.C. 714 the Minni were completely subdued, Ursa of Armenia forced to escape to the mountains, and Muzazir (Southern Arm= enia) ravaged. Media submitted in B.C. 713, and Ambaris of Tubal (the Tibareni)= was conquered. In B.C. 711, Sargon overran Palestine, breaking up the confederacy of Egypt, Moab, Edom, Ju= dah, and the Philistines, and destroying Ashdod (see Isa. xx. 1). In B.C. 710, Merodach-Baladan, and his ally Sutruk-nan-khundi of Elam, were defeated, and Babylon taken; Sargon henceforth assuming the title of "King of Babylonia.&q= uot; Merodach-Baladan was pursued to the shores of the = Persian Gulf in B.C. 709, and there captured. Seven of the kings of = Cyprus sent tribute in B.C. 708, and Sargon set up a stele in the island. The kingdom of Comagene was also reduced. Dur-S= argina (Khorsabad) was finished about this time, and another war with Elam broke out. Sargon was murdered on the 12th day of the month Ab (July), B.= C. 705, and was succeeded by his son, Sennacherib. (1876c1)

$H Sar-ili.     Babylonia

Sar-ili. "King of the Gods." A Babylonian = deity, to whom Urukh, king of Babylonia, erec= ted a temple at Zirgulla. (1876c1)

$H Sar-iqbi.     Assyria

An Assyrian city, conquered by the king of= Minni, who was soon afterwards defeated by Assurbanipal. (1876c1)

$H = Sarissa.

Gr. (FVD4FF"[=3Dsarissa]). The = longest and heaviest spear of the Greeks peculiar to the Macedonian phalanx.(1883= m1)

$H = Sarkimuna.     Babylonia

An unidentified Babylonian deity. (1876c1)=

$H = Sar-kudiri.

An Elamite city which was destroyed by Sennacherib. (1876c1)

$H Sarludari.     [See Saludari<= /span> - Editor]

$H = Sar-pat-ibel.

The governor of Nisib= ni, in the reign of Samsi-Vul IV., and eponym of = the year B.C. 816, the chief event in which was an expedition to Zarati. (1876c1)

$H = Sar-rap-anu.     Babylonia

A capital city in Babylonia, where Nahu-u-sabsi, the last king, was conquered by Tiglath-Pileser I. and crucified upon its walls= . (1876c1)

$H = Sar-rat.     Assyria=

Sar-r= at. "Queen." The Assyrian feminine of the title Sar, "King." (1876c1)

$H Sarrazinois Carpets.

Embroidered stuffs resembling tapestry, made in the 10th and 11th centuries, doubtless imita= ted from work by the Saracens.(1883m1)

$H = Sar-ru.

Sar-r= u. "The King." The astronomical name of the deity Marduk as= the planet Mercury in the month Tebet. (1876c1)

$H = Sarru-etiq-dairi.     Egypt

The king of Tanis, on= e of the petty Egyptian kings under the Icosarchy established by Esarhaddon. (1876c1)

$H Sarsen‑stones.

Boulders of sandston= e found on the Chalk downs in Wiltshire.(1883m1)

$H Sarsnet.    (See SARCENET.) (1883m1)

$H Sartago.

R. A frying‑pa= n; in the patois of Languedoc, sartan.(1883m1)

$H = Sar-tuda.     Babylonia

A Babylonian deity, to whom a temple was erected by Sin-gasit, king of Urukh. (1876c1)

$H = Saruc.

Saruc= . Or Sarac, or Saracus. According to the Greek historians the last king of Assyria. He was also called Assuracus. See Assur-ebil-ili. (1876c1)

$H = Sar-uemur-anni.

The governor of Lullu= me, in the reign of Sargon II. He was eponym of the year B.C. 712, the chief event in which was an expedition to Milid. (1= 876c1)

$H = Saruka.

The king of the Sacae= on the borders of the Jaxartes. He revolted a= gainst Darius Hystaspes, but without effect, as that monarch having pacified the rest of his kingdom marched against Saruka and took him prisoner. His fate is not known. (1876c1)

$H = Sarum.

A mountain people on the borders of Media = and Susiana, who were con= quered by Sennacherib. (1876c1)

$H = Sarzina.

The king of a district near Lake Van. He was the son of Mikdiara,= and his kingdom, together with 300 of its villages, was invaded and plundered= by Mutariz-assur, the Rabsaki of Samsi-Vul or Samas-Rimmon III. (1876c1)

$H Sash frame.

(Arch.) A window frame which opens or shuts by being mov= ed up or down in vertical grooves. Windows in English houses have long been constructed upon this principle. ILLUS. sashfram(1891a1)

<= /o:p>

$H = Sasi.

In Chaldean astronomy the name of an unidentified star. (1876c1)

The son of Matuzza, king of Patina. He was raised to the throne after the death of the usurpe= r Surrila by Shalmaneser = II., who imposed on him a heavy tribute. (1876c1)

$H = Sasingu.

The Assyrian form of the Egyptian royal na= me Sheshanka or Shishak, w= hich see. (1876c1)

$H = Sasu-khons-pa-set.     Egypt

A priestess of Amen, the daughter of Sasur-amen, a prophet of Amen also. Period uncertai= n. (1876c1)

$H = Sasur-amen.     Egypt

A prophet of Amen, the father of the lady = Sasu-khons-pa-set, a priestess of Amen. (1876c1)

$H = Sa-tat-neb-enito.     Egypt

A priestess of Amen. The period when she l= ived is uncertain. (1876c1)

$H = Satau.     Egypt

Another form of the name of the romantic h= ero Anepou or Anep, of the = ancient Story of the Two Brothers. (1876c1)

$H = Sat-bu.     Egypt

An Egyptian lady, the wife of Hor-im-hotep, and the mother of Ankh-hapi, a priest of Pthah and Sn= efru at Memphis. (1876c1)

$H = Satemi.     Egypt

An Egyptian deity. He was the god of heari= ng. (Wilkinson.) (1876c1)

$H Sati.      Egypt

A mystical snake seventy cubits long, inhabiting the fourth abode. He is mentioned in the = CLth chapter of the Ritual of the Dead. (1876c1)=

In Egyptian mythology the goddess of the sunbeam, and the consort of Khnum. She was represented wearing the white crown and lunar horns. (Wilkinson.) (1876c1= )

One of the Elephantiné triad of gods. She = was wife of Khnemu, who with his other wife Anukit formed the triad. She is picturesquely spoke= n of as the archeress who shoots forth the current= (i.e. the cataract) straight and swift as an arrow. Little is known about her, = but on the island of Sehêl there have been found the remains of a temple to the two goddesses. She is mentioned in some texts as the daughter of Ra, and also as a form of Isis, and is represented wearing the vulture head-dress, and the crown of Upper Egypt with the cow's horns. ILLUS. Sati.(1902b1)

$H Satin.

This fine silk, orig= inally imported from China,= was first known in Eng= land in the 14th century. It is thicker than ordinary silk, and remarkable for= its smooth glossy surface, not exhibiting the marks of the reticulations of t= he threads.(1883m1)

$H Satinet.

A thin kind of satin.(1883m1)

$H Satin‑spar.

An ornamental stone,= having a soft satiny surface when polished.(1883m1)

$H Satin‑wood.

An ornamental yellow= wood much used in cabinet‑making.(1883m1)

$H Satiny.

That which has the brilliance or lustre of satin. Thus we may say of a proof of a woodcut, that it is of a satiny texture, or of a picture that the rendering of its flesh tint is satiny.(1891a1)

$H = Satiriai.

A king of a country of the Nahri, who paid tribute to Samas-Rimmon III.(?), kin= g of Assyria. (1876c1)

$H Satiric.

A term applied to the draughtsmen of caricatures and humorous sketches. The artists on the staff of Punch, for instance, would doubtless describe themselves as satiric.(1891a1)

$H Satsuma.    Pottery

(Pot.) A fine stoneware produced in Japan in factories belongin= g to the princes of Satsuma. It was decorated with flowers, arabesques, &c= ., worked in gold as well as in enamels. The older the pieces of Satsuma ware are, = the more refined and simple is their style of ornament.(1891a1)

$H Saturn.

Her. The black colour in the arms of sovereign princes.(1883m1)

$H Saturnalia.

R. Festivals of Satu= rn, held on the seventh of the calends of January (14th of December), instituted b= y Numa. During the four or five days that this festiv= al lasted, both public and private business was interrupted; and banquets and festivities were held, in which masters and slaves met on a temporary foo= ting of equality. In the feasts at rustic places, the hollow statue of Saturn = was filled with oil; he held a pruning knife in his hand, and his feet were surrounded with a band of wool.(1883m1)

$H Saturnus.

A deity worshipped at Rome. He was believed at a very remote period to have reigned over the city, and the age of Saturn (like the age of Cronos in = Greece, to which deity Saturn presents some resemblance) was remembered as a golden = age. Saturn is said to have instructed his people in agriculture and gardening, and he is represented holding a sickle in his hand. A festival was held in his honour at Rome in December, and the Saturnalia always afforded an opportunity for merrim= ent and riot.(1891a1)

$H Satyr.

Satyr. A mythological figure. A dem= i‑god of the Greeks and Romans, whose characteristics were a brutal, sensual fa= ce, the feet of a goat and a hairy body. His head was covered with unkempt ha= ir, from underneath which horns sprouted. Statues and masks of satyrs were frequently used as a decoration.(1891a1)

Satyrs. Greek deitie= s of the wooded plains, as the Roman fauns= were of the fields. They are usually represented as the attendants of Bacchus, or the lovers of the Nymphs, with goat's legs and horns, and hum= an bodies covered with short hair; often with LACINIA on the neck.(1883m1)

$H Saucer.    Painting

(Paint.) Small vessels of zinc, fixed to a plate of metal folded over so as to fit on the edge of a palette, are used by painters in oil to hold either oil or varnish. Painters in water‑colour used sm= all concave disks of porcelain of a spherical shape. They also use rectangular saucers, which are set side by side upon porcelain. In these colours can = be mixed, and several colours used at the same time. Some saucers, hollowed = out of a block of crystal, intended particularly for Indian ink, may be cover= ed with a piece of glass, so as to preserve the tints from dust or evaporati= on. 4 ILLUS. saucer1, saucer2, sauce= r3, saucer4(1891a1)

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$H = Saulmugina.     Assyria=

The brother of Assurb= anipal, king of Assyria, by whom he was made king of Babylon. Tired of his subjection to h= is suzerain, he combined with Nebo-bel-zikri, the grandson of Merodach-Baladan, Ummanigas, or Khum-ba-nigas, and afterwards Tammaritu, kings of Elam, to declare war with Assyria. For a tim= e he had partial success, but soon Assurbanipal se= nt a still larger force against him, and his allies falling off, he in despera= tion set fire to his own palace at Babylon, and perished in its ruins. NOTE. - The fate of Saulm= ugina is a contested point with Assyriologists, Lenormant holding that he was pardoned at the intercession of his sister Seruya-edirat; Fox Talbot that he was devoured by lions or cast into a furnace; and Smith, w= hose views as those of the latest writers, are given above. (1876c1)

$H Saunders Blue or Saunders' Blue (Green).    Painting

Saunders Blue. (Paint.) A corruption of cendres bleues; the name is sometimes gi= ven to ultramarine (q.v.).(1891a1)

Saunders' Blue (Gree= n) (from the French c= endres' bleu). The blue ashes of calcined la= pis lazuli. (See CARBONATES OF COPPER.)(1883m1)

$H Saurians.

Animals of the lizar= d tribe, crocodiles, &c., antediluvian and other.(1883m1)

$H = Saurva.

In Zendic myth= ology the third of the Darvands, the representative= and opposite of the Siva of the Vedas. See Darvands. (1876c1)

$H Savage‑man.    Heraldry

Savage‑man or Wood‑man. Her. A wild man, naked, or clothed in skins or leaves, and carrying a club. The illustration is the device of De Chaumon= t, Marshal of France (+ 1510), with the motto, "Mitem animum agresti<= /span> sub tegmine scabro," which he bore embroidered on the pennon of his company.

Fig. 602. Device of Charles d'Amboise, Sieur de Chaumont.(1883m1)

$H = Savitri.

Savit= ri. "The Progenitor." A Vedic title of the Supreme Being as = the common ancestor. (1876c1)

$H Savonnerie.

Savonnerie. (See TURKEY‑STITCH.) (1883m1)

A term applied to the carpets made at the royal factory which was established in Par= is in the 17th century, and merged in 1728 in the Gobel= ins manufactory.(1891a1)

$H = Sawaha.     Arabia<= o:p>

An ancient Arabian goddess who was possibl= y a form of the moon. (1876c1)

$H = Saxnot.     Scandinavia

Another form of the name of the Scandinavi= an deity Tyr, which see. (1876c1)

$H Saxon architecture.    [See Anglo‑Saxon architecture= .] (1891a1)

$H Saxon Blue.

Sulphate of indigo used as a dye‑stuff.(1883m1)

$H Saxon Gold‑work.  &= nbsp;

Saxon Gold‑work of elegan= t design and skilful workmanship, may be attributed to the 5th and 6th centuries. = The art was doubtless imported by Roman colonists. Specimens may be studied in the South Kensington Museum= . (See METALLURGY.)(1883m1)

$H Saxony.    1. Pottery; 2. Heraldry<= /span>

(1) (Pot.) Dresden or <= st1:City w:st=3D"on">Meissen china is frequ= ently described as Saxony. [Dresden.]

(2) (Her.) The arms of Saxony, borne on a shield of pret= ence by the Prince of Wales in virtue of his title of Duke of Saxony, are Barry of ten, or and sable, a coronet extended in bend, vert. This coronet extended in bend is by French heralds called= a cancerlin.(1891a1)

$H = Sayyida.     Arabia<= o:p>

Sayyi= da. "Lady." In Arabic history another name of Rala, the wife= of Ishmael. See Rala.(1876c1)

$H = Sba.     Egypt

Sba. = "A Star, a Gateway." The name which is applied in the Ritual of = the Dead to the mystical pylons of the Ker-neter, which see. (1876c1)

$H = Sbantarad.     Armenia

An Armenian warlike deity who was adopted = from the Merodach of the Chal= deans. (1876c1)