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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 173

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to the hand, in various partsof religious ritual, by all Christians, Hebrews, and bymany others, some of whom we are accustomed tospeak of as infidel or idolatrous. In this aspect itis quite easy to trace the same underlying idea of theimportance of manual gesture pictorially shown inthe practices… … At Tel-el-Amarna. Fig. 74. We see by Fig.74l6s how in sculp-ture in the tombsat Tel - el - Amarnaevery ray of thelife - giving sun ismade to terminatein a hand, and howone of these handsis presenting theankh, or symbol ofof life, to the lipsof the royal worshipper. An examination of thisand the…

Horns (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Devil · Hand (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Terra-cotta sculpture, Italian

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