Horns of honour, and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology (1900)
Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · London, J. Murray · leaf 64
e original idea of the sun’s rays. Next we find the curving, arching, bending objects in the conventional modern crown typified by del Vaga in the bending of the spikes (see Fig. 20), which can have no meaning at all in the form so familiar to us, unless they are a survival, and so represent the… … 19), or the helmet (Fig. 14). The rays on the chaplet are in their usual place, while each pair of horns is merely lengthened so as to meet in the centre to form a support for the supreme ornament, the ball and cross. Other good examples may be seen in the large cartoon by Sambourne, “The Roll of…
Horns · Devil · Hand · Terra-cotta figurines, Italian
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