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Horns of honour, and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology

Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · 1900 · London, J. Murray · 36 pictures

Horns of Honour is an 1900 London study by the folklorist Frederick Thomas Elworthy, published by J. Murray, on obscure byways of archaeology such as horns, hands and devil lore. Its pictures are pen-and-ink line drawings of carved and cast objects, including a bronze hand votive with figures and a bull-horned Mithraic-style relief, showing how small ritual objects were recorded in fine linework a designer could borrow for hand-and-object motifs.

Horns · Devil · Hand · Terra-cotta figurines, Italian

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library