Horns of honour, and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology (1900)
Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · London, J. Murray · leaf 98
th literally and figuratively. The intimate connection between the protective and the dignifying quality of horns as a decoration is well illustrated by a piece of ritual which has lasted from early times down to these scientific, matter-of-fact days. In the Naples Museum is a great Assyrian… … 1517 is another bearded bishop Andrea Sirani, c. 1600. Presentation. Rosini, vi. 75. wearing a mitre, on which a very Fig. 41. distinct white horn, painted upon a darker ground, springs from the forehead to the top of the mitre, where it forms the point. Perhaps not everybody is aware that the…
Horns · Devil · Hand · Terra-cotta figurines, Italian
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