Handbook to the antiquities in the British Museum : being a description of the remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan art preserved there, with numerous illustrations (1851)
Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885 · London : Murray · leaf 450
d of the lionappears to have nothing to do with the subject, but is merely anornament, to which was attached the ring or clasp whereby theshoulder-piece was fastened to the breast-plate. Case 88 has a fine specimen in terracotta of an antcfixal orna-ment, representing the head of Medusa ; and two… … Bronzes of Siris. Greek and Roman divinities. Among these are, in Case 89, four-teen statuettes of Harpocrates, represented for the most part in hisusual attitude, with the finger raised to the mouth, wearing theEgyptian pshent, and holding a cornucopiae: some of them are accom-panied by a jackal…
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