Cyclopedia of architecture, historical, descriptive, typographical, decorative, theoretical and mechanical, alphabetically arranged, familiarly explained, and adapted to the comprehension of workmen, etc., etc. By Robert Stuart [pseud.] ... Two volumes in one. .. (1854)
Stuart, Robert, Stuart, Robert · New York: A. S. Barnes & Co. ... Cincinnati:--H.W. Derby · leaf 38
tablesubjects among antiquaries. Themost ingenious of the many theo-ries proposed for their explana-tion, appears to be that suggest-ed by Ilieronymus, in which thefigures and cabalistic letters areconsidered to be allegorical of themotions of the sun and heavenlybodies. In this theory the figurein… … The cock, among some ancientpeople, was sacred to the sun,whose appearance he announcedby his crowing ; the cock was alsosacred to ^seulapius, the god ofmedicine, which is indicated bythe legs being formed like ser-pents, and terminated with thehead of a cock ; iEseulapius ishimself typified by the…
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