Horns of honour : and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology (1900)
Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · London : J. Murray · leaf 232
ps. These ears (Fig. 120), he says, were vowed by aperson who had been cured of deafness or other mal cioreille; they were vowedin respect of the cure and nonen action de graces. The whole question of votiveofferings is most difficult andobscure, whether viewed as an-cient or modern. Probably… … Montfaucon, iv. App. p. 122. Fig. 120. 2l6 THE SYMBOLIC HAND and yet, au fond, remain to-day solid monumentsof paganism only half supplanted. Figs. 121, 122 represent a hand now in the BerlinMuseum, but formerly in that of Bellori in Rome.
Horns (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Devil · Hand (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Terra-cotta sculpture, Italian
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