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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 55

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HORNED HELMETS 33 themselves, and they may be seen to-day in the museums of the Louvre, of Naples, and of London, from whence our sketches were respectively made. … Fig. 17. were to support the plume, the panache of heraldry, as shown on Figs. 18, 19. Even in England the horned helmet was worn. Fig. 17 is from the original in the British Museum. It is of copper, and said to be ancient British, found in the Thames. Not only did the gods Chnemu and Osiris wear…

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

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