Horns of honour : and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology (1900)
Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · London : J. Murray · leaf 81
for granted that one and all of them must be Medusae,with horns mounted by way of reinforcement to thepower of the head itself, particularly as we bore inmind many undoubted gorgons heads with horns 64 HORNS OF HONOUR upon them, with which we have dealt elsewhere, andof which we give a specimen,… … having much the same type of face as the last, yetof course quite distinct and bearing its own in-dividuality. A third example is shown in Fig. 35, again alike,and yet again quite different. The points in commonare the horns on each, and the remarkable ex-pression of terror or fright which all…
Horns (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Devil · Hand (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Terra-cotta sculpture, Italian
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