Horns of honour : and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology (1900)
Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · London : J. Murray · leaf 86
ishere also em-bodied. Wemay surmisethat the ownerhad seen servicein Africa, typifiedby the elephan-tine trunk andears. At thesame time it ex-presses the owners worship of I sis (so prevalent atPompeii) by the disposition of the elephants tusks,so as to appear like the horns appropriate to… … Fir. 37. 70 HORNS OF HONOUR prominence, however, given to the horns in the deviceseems unquestionably to denote that they had beenraised up on the house for horns of safety orprotection. Of much earlier date, is to be seen in the Museumat Taranto, a solid terra-cotta horn, life size, with ahole at…
Horns (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Devil · Hand (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Terra-cotta sculpture, Italian
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