The truth of revelation : demonstrated by an appeal to existing monuments, sculptures, gems, coins, and medals (1840)
Murray, John, 1786?-1851 · London : W. Smith · leaf 215
eans disposed to go so far as Mr. Deanehas gone, in his ingenious work on The Worship ofthe Serpent; for many circumstances induce us tothink that a number of these symbols are connectedwith the elevation of the brazen serpent in the wilder-ness—a question which shall be considered in itsproper… … she is trampling on a serpent. In the Tyrian coin, ofwhich we present a fac-simile, aserpent appears twisted round atree:—conical mounds, or perhaps Wpetrce ambrosiance, are seen on each |{side; and on what may be called ^the exergue of the coin, or that ^^^part of it which is out of the field,may…
Creation · Archaeology
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