A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 69
er withnumerous objects of magical virtue (No. 150). Several of theseare well-known attributes of deities, e.g. the thunderbolt, thetrident, the club, the crescent, and the caduceus. The object ofthese amulets seems to have been to propitiate the deities whosesymbols are represented on them.… … Fig. 46.—Bronze Magic Hand(No. 148). Ht. 53 in. 58 GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE. p. 22 ; Daremberg and Saglio, fig. 5; (92) Helbig, Homerisches Epos,2nd ed., p. 353 ; (95) Athen. Mittheilungen, xxvi, p. 325 ; (96) Class. Rev.,II., p. 297 ; (97) Cat. of Vases, III., E 114 ; (98) Cat. of Vases, II., B 633…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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