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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 179

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THE DEXTERA DEI i57 benediction, and still retained by the Greek Church … is a century later, we find the same idea, fig. 77. with the important difference that no special gesture is implied by the hand, which here represents simply the power of the Almighty ; while the rays passing from the hand are in the form of a sheaf of spears.165 Of a much earlier period than…

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

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