MAKE A MEME View Large Image Engraving of a marble relief of Phanes.jpg en This equation is presupposed by a relief fig 909 which seems to have come more than a century since from Rome and is now exhibited in the Royal Museum no 2676 at Modena On a thick slab of white ...
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Keywords: Engraving of a marble relief of Phanes.jpg en This equation is presupposed by a relief fig 909 which seems to have come more than a century since from Rome and is now exhibited in the Royal Museum no 2676 at Modena On a thick slab of white marble 0 71m high 0 49m wide is an oval band enclosing an egg-shaped recess The band is decorated with twelve signs of the zodiac and grouped about it are winged heads representing the four winds of heaven Within the recess stands a nude youth encumbered with a plethora of attributes Above his head and beneath his feet are the two halves of an egg from each of which flames are bursting A snake coiled round him rears its head on to the upper egg-shell He has two large wings and a crescent on his back the head of a lion growing from his front and the heads of a goat and a ram projecting from his right and left sides Instead of feet he has cloven hoofs In his right hand he grasps a thunderbolt in his left a sceptre The egg-like recess in which the god is placed the upper and lower shells from which he has emerged the strange animal-heads on his flanks the snake's head appearing above his face all mark him as Phanes 1914 https //archive org/stream/zeusstudyinancie02cook/zeusstudyinancie02cook page/1052/mode/1up Zeus a study in ancient religion - fig 909 - page 1052 Arthur Bernard Cook 1868 “1952 other versions Custom license marker 2015 03 13 PD-old Uploaded with UploadWizard Phanes deity Engravings of Greek deities 1914 engravings
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