Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . Figure 10. Italian Glossary, plate xxvi., figure 349. It is described asa marble statue, now in the Guarnacci Museum. Theletters, which are Etruscan, and read from right to left, may-be thus rendered into the ordinary Latin characters fromleft to right, MI: GANA: LARTHIAS ZANL : VELKINEI:ME - SE. ; the translation I take to be, ? the votive offeringof Larthias (a female) of Zanal, (= Zancle = Messana inSicily), (wife) of Velcinius, in the sixth month. It isuncertain whether we are to regard the statue as an effigy ofthe celestia mother and child,
Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . Figure 10. Italian Glossary, plate xxvi., figure 349. It is described asa marble statue, now in the Guarnacci Museum. Theletters, which are Etruscan, and read from right to left, may-be thus rendered into the ordinary Latin characters fromleft to right, MI: GANA: LARTHIAS ZANL : VELKINEI:ME - SE. ; the translation I take to be, ? the votive offeringof Larthias (a female) of Zanal, (= Zancle = Messana inSicily), (wife) of Velcinius, in the sixth month. It isuncertain whether we are to regard the statue as an effigy ofthe celestia mother and child, or as the representationof some devor lady who has been spared during her preg-nancy, her parturition, or from some disease affecting herself 28 and child. Analogy would lead us to infer that the Queen ofHeaven is intended. Figure 14 is copied from Hislops TivoBahylons; it represents Indranee, the wife jof Indra orIndur, and is to be found in Indur Subba, the south front ofthe Caves of EUora, Asiatic Researches, vol. vi., p. Figure 11. Figure 12. Indra is equivalent to Jupiter Tonans, and is represented asseated on an elephant; the waterspout is the trunk of thiselephant, and the iris is his bow, which it is not auspiciousto point out, Moors Pantheon, p. 260. He is representedvery much as if he were a satyr, Moors Pantheon, p. 264;but his wife is always spoken of as personified chastity andpropriety. Indranee is seated on a lioness, which replacesthe cow of Isis, the former resembling the latter in herfeminine and maternal instincts. Figures 15, 16, are copies of Diana of the Ephesians;the first is from Hisslop, who quotes Kittos Illustrated 29 Commentary, vol. v., p. 250; the second from HigginsAnacalypsis, who quotes Montfau^on, plate 47. I rememberto have seen a figure similar to these in the Koyal Museum
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