Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 59
and silver, representing Roman gods, have beendug up in Denmark and other places in the north. These statuettes were transformations of the Roman and 38 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. Etruscan gods that served for the Gallo-Germanic gods.An illustration of the Roman influence is seen in a roundornament of this… … Fig- 59.—Gold-plated Ornament found at Thorsberg. (Danish Arts.) Five suns are placed crosswise, and between two of theouter ones is seen a barbarised figure of Jupiter with hornson his helmet; the sun in the centre is surrounded by acircle of helmeted heads. Just as this recalls to our mindsthe…
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