An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations (1883)
Mollett, John W. (John William) · London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 286
culptures, in whichwarriors brandished their weapons and wentthrough a mock combat. Pythia, Gr. (t^vQm). (i) A priestess ofApollo at Delphi, represented seated on thess^cYed tripod. (See CORTINA.) (2) Games insti-tuted at Delphi in honour of Apollo, and ofhis killing the Pytho, the monstrous… … Fig. 567. Small Ivory Pyx. Ninth Century (?). Pyx. The word in its earliest meaning in-cluded any small box or case, and often in theMiddle Ages it contained relics. Thus in theDurham treasury there was a tooth of St.Gengulphus, good for the falling sickness, in asmall ivory pyx. The pyx used for…
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