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Horns of honour, and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology (1900)

Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · London, J. Murray · leaf 138

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HORNS OF THE DEVIL 1 lb the distinction between the dragon and the more classic griffin, whose body was that of a winged lion, … Forum of Trajan, Rome. also, are several others to be seen with Fig. 45. eagles’ heads on lions’ bodies, but with the fore feet like crocodiles’ claws. Mr. Marindin says that the griffin is an attribute of Apollo, and (see Smith’s Dictionary of Antiquities, “ that some suppose the reason of the…

Horns · Devil · Hand · Terra-cotta figurines, Italian

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