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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 219

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ferred to this illustrationin discussing the dragon {ante,p. 117). Another is over a doorway atElkston, Gloucestershire, and onemore in Somersetshire on a coffin-lid at Lullinsrton. We have alsoreferred to the same gesture tobe seen at Romsey Abbey {ante,p. 158). The special position of thehand,… … Daglingworth, Glouc. (Saxon). Fig. 113. diction, is, however, always more or less uplifted, and 1 not pointing downwards. Inmediaeval art this attitude wasgenerally confined to thesecond person of the HolyTrinity, as in the examplesgiven (Figs. 112, 113).213 It would be easy to repro-duce hundreds…

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

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