Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 754
del axe-head in bronze have come down to us.One in the British Museum has a perforated crescentic blade backedby a bull, the whole measuring some three inches in length(fig. 542)\ The other, once in the Forman collection, is very similarin design and size, but has a solid blade (fig. 543)^. The… … Fig. 542. ginally no ordinary instruments of execution, but sacred weaponsborne before the king as human representative of the sky-god.The lictors axe-blade, at least in late republican times, was givena semi-equine form. Denarii of A. Postumius Albinus struckc. 82 B.C. show a togate figure erect…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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