Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism. With an essay on Baal worship, on the Assyrian sacred "grove" and other allied symbols by John Newton (1875)
Inman, Thomas, 1820-1876, Newton, John, M.R.C.S.E · New York J.W. Bouton · leaf 125
ii., plate 61, wherein Diana of the Ephesians is depictedas having a body of the exact shape of the sistrum figured inPayne Knights work on the remains of the worship ofPriapus, etc. The bars across the sistrum show that itdenotes a pure virgin (see Ancient Faiths, second edition,Vol. ii., pp.… … Figure 64. 49 Figures 63 to 66 are all drawn from Assyrian sources.
Symbolism · Christian art and symbolism
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