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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 41

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thehelmet rises a longand very curious ob-ject, which forms acurve, and is muchlike a horn. It isaltogether inexplic-able to me what itcan have been usedfor, and there is norecord in Homerwhich mi^ht be in-terpreted so as toindicate its existenceon the Homerichelmet.34 With alldeference to so… … HORNED PRIESTS OF MARS 25 the shield is smaller and differently shaped, we seealmost the same soldier reproduced in Fig. 18, p. 34,from Mr. Leafs Homer. The single horn inprofile is intended to represent the pair of hornsshown on the front view. Probably this is indicatedby the two lines by which…

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

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