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Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)

Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 70

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Saturnus, who like Cronus (No. 62) is a primitive harvestgod, is represented with veiled head and holding a reaping-hook. RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY 53 64. Cybele.Portion of relief from a Roman altar erected in 295 a.d. … The goddess, veiled and wearing the turreted crownwhich belongs to her as city-goddess, sits in her chariotdrawn by two lions. In her right hand she holds alaurel branch to which fillets are attached, in her left thetambourine (rvjiTravov, tympanum) which was beaten byher votaries. To the right of…

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