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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 272

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; so we have two frogs, andfour cakes, against one and three in other hands. Figs. 143-4 are from Montfaucon (Bonanni Coll.), ii.pi. 137. This hand was found in 1708 on the IsolaFarnese in Rome, and used to be in the museum ofthe Collegio Romano, now merged in the Kirscherian, 279 All this is dealt… … Fig. 143. Isola Farnese, Montfaucon. Fig. 144. but it has disappeared. It is (d) in Jahns list, whosimply copied Bonanni, from Antichita di Ercolano,vol. i. p. 5. The termination of the thumb in the head of Serapisis very remarkable, and together with the rams head,of course denotes the dedication…

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

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