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Architectura numismatica; or, Architectural medals of classic antiquity: illustrated and explained by comparison with the monuments and the descriptions of ancient authors, and copious text. One hundred lithographs and woodcuts (1859)

Donaldson, Thomas Leverton, 1795-1885 · London, Day & son · leaf 124

An illustration from Architectura numismatica; or, Architectural medals of classic antiquity: illustrated and explained by comparison with the monuments and the descriptions of ancient authors, and copious text. One hundred lithographs and woodcuts, 1859, leaf 124
eacock, emblem of Juno. She appears tohold pendent in her right hand an object, of which ithas puzzled writers on coins to determine the exactpurport and meaning—whether an olive-branch, earsof wheat, or heads of lances, shears, or a bunch ofherbs. Eckhel (vol. vii. p. 359) supposes it a pair… … TEMPLE OF- MARTIAL • JVNO fi° 18

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