Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 733
MENT eagle does not appear before 1845.x But it occurs in illuminated MSS. ofearlier date.2 The birds represented in early Coptic art with medallions round their necks(Fig. 86) are in some cases eagles. An example painted on the wall of one of thefunerary chapels at Bawit has the word aeros painted… … Fig. 452. Marble relief with gryphons, of the eleventh century : S. Marco, Venice. (Alinari.) or disposed singly, had a symbolic meaning in ornament (harts, peacocks,,doves, &c). In some cases this meaning survived late, but as a rule afterthe First Period the animal becomes simply decorative,…
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