Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 100
hing between 9d. and lOd. RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY 79 98. Janus.Roman bronze coin (as) of about 217 B.C. In the British Museum. The double-headed god (Iani Ufrontis imago) wears alaurel-wreath on each of his heads.The head of Janus was the typeused to distinguish the as, whichoriginally weighed one… … 99. Silvanus.Portion of a Roman Votive Relief in the Vatican. Silvanus holds a pine-branch (as god of the woods) and avine-knife ; he wears a tunic andmantle, and on his legs fasciae, i.e.leggings made of strips of linenwrapped crosswise. Such leggingswere sometimes worn by Italianpeasants. The…
Classical antiquities
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