Horns of honour, and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology (1900)
Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · London, J. Murray · leaf 169
ATTITUDE OF SUBMISSION 147 manual gesture with which to accompany his de- votions. It is, moreover, curious as well as instructive to note that the same placing of the hands together, as in Fig. … and defencelessness, seems always to have been a symbol of humble submission, of weak inferiority ; we can then readily perceive how “the lifting up” of the hands,151 in that same position shown in the frontis- piece, has, so far as we know, always been the one appropriate for Christians, to mark…
Horns · Devil · Hand · Terra-cotta figurines, Italian
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