Horns of honour : and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology (1900)
Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · London : J. Murray · leaf 175
he Church of San Vitale, at Ravenna, dating notlater than the sixth century. Fig. 78 is from a sketchmade of one of them. Here Moses is bidden to takeoff his shoes, etc. The command is conveyed by thedextera Dei from the clouds, posed precisely in theway we have been discussing. ,6s Figs. 76, 77… … Regarding the tenth century illumination, Fig. 76,we may observe that it is veryunusual to find this gesturedepicted in a Latin Churchdocument so long after the schism ofthe churches in the eighth century. In all these cases the idea is pre-cisely the same : in Egypt the rayspass from the suns disc…
Horns (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Devil · Hand (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Terra-cotta sculpture, Italian
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