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Companion to Roman history (1912)

Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 465

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III natural powers, and recall the signa PantJica, or images of a divinitysurrounded by the symbols of many others.1 Here we find thepanther of Dionysus, the bow and quiver of Diana, the club ofHercules, the tongs of Vulcan, the sistrum of Isis, the serpent andwTand of Aesculapius, the sword of… … Fig. 64. Patera with emblema (bust of Africa). But the most remarkable of the finds of Bosco Reale are the twoscyplil with crustae bearing historical reliefs. When the treasurewas purchased by Baron Edmond Rothschild and presented tothe Louvre, these were reserved for his private collection.…

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