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Companion to Roman history (1912)

Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 316

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he personification of Infinite Time, usually represented as a nudefigure of human form with a lions head and four wings, holdinga key and thunderbolt and enwrapped with a serpent whose headsometimes enters at the mouth. Besides these types, the Mithraicbas-reliefs often have a framework of minor… … c 300 RELIGION chap, iv shown on PI. LI was found at Neuenheim, near Heidelberg, in1828. The interpretation of its details is not always certain ; butbesides the main group, which shows the slaying of the bull byMithras and the eais of wheat springing from his blood, the bustsof sun and moon, and…

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