Allen, J. Romilly (John Romilly), 1847-1907, Anderson, Joseph, 1832-1916, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland · Edinburgh, Printed by Neill & co., limited · leaf 544
is altogether worn away ; in the middle is the Temptation of Adam and Eve ^ (treated in the same conventional manner as on the crosses at Kells, Co. Meath, and Monasterboice, Co. Louth) ; and at the bottom, a diagonal key-pattern with serpent’s heads in the stj^uare and triangular spaces between… … Fig. 398b. — Back. Lower part of back of cross-shaft at Iona (No. 2). This cross-shaft has been described and illustrated in Stuart’s Sculptured Stones of Seotkmd (vol. ii. pi. 44, No. 1). Iona No. 3 is a mutilated cross-shaft standing inside a box-like arrangement of slabs of stone (perhaps an…
Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism
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