The ruined cities of Mashonaland : being a record of excavation and exploration in 1891, with a chapter on the orientation and mensuration of the temple by R. M. W. Swan (1893)
Bent, J. Theodore (James Theodore), 1852-1897, Swan, Robert McNair Wilson, 1858-1904 · London, New York : Longmans, Green and co. · leaf 221
THE FINDS AT THE GREAT ZIMBABWE RUINS 187 bird is represented in the zodiac of Denderah. Evidently these things were used as amulets or votive offerings in the temple. Lucian alludes to the phalli used as amulets by the Greeks with a human … MINIATURE BIRDS ON PEDESTALS figure on the end, and he connects them with the tower thirty cubits in height. In the centre of the temple on the hill stood an altar, into the stones of which were inserted and also
Swan, Robert McNair Wilson, 1858-1904 · Extinct cities
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