Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism (1922)
Inman, Thomas, 1820-1876, Newton, John, M.M.C.B.E · New York, Peter Eckler publishing company · leaf 128
es 10 and 11, ofMaffeis Gemme Anticlie Figurate (Rome, 1707). In plate10 the Mithraic lion has seven stars above it, around whichare placed respectively, words written in Greek, Etruscan 65 and Phoenician characters, ZEDCH. TELKAN. TELKON.TELKON. QIDEKH. UNEULK. LNKELLP., apparentlyshowing that the… … Figure t)4.£ 66 out by considering the \^^ords to be very bad Greek, and theletters to be much transposed. Figure 94 is copied by Higgins, Anacalypsis, on theauthority of Dubois, who states, vol. iii., p. 33, that it wasfound on a stone in a church in France, where it hadbeen kept religi-usly for…
Symbolism · Christian art and symbolism
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