Horns of honour : and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology (1900)
Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · London : J. Murray · leaf 90
HORNED MEDUSA 73 forced by the protective horns. Thus we see after aninterval of unknown ages, from the time of the hornedurns of the Etruscans (see Fig. 38), how, along withthe revival of cremation, the same protective hornswere placed over the ashes in the late Roman period,to which this belongs.… … Uffizi, Florence. Fig. 39a. horns over the door, usually painted red and white.The fruiterers and grocers, indeed nearly all provisionshops, as the present writer can testify, have some-where or other the potent single horn suspended. Thisfact is remarked on by Canon Jorio,70 who speaksof them as…
Horns (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Devil · Hand (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Terra-cotta sculpture, Italian
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