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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 180

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lsothe Greek translator knewwell that hand alone wasthe important word.173 The open hand set upas a trophy or token oftriumph was the usual sym-bol of the Phoenicians. Itappears on many of their stelae or monumentaltablets, with which Saul and the Israelites must have been quite familiar. The… … Perrot, p. 253, vol. iii. (Carthage). Fig. 84.

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

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