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see CENTURION
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Arrow(s) |
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Diana/Artemis; Apollo; Cupid/Eros |
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Bow |
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Apollo; Diana/ArtemisDiana/Artemis; Cupid; Actaeon; Orion; unknown hunter; Odysseus/Ulysses |
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Club |
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Hercules/Heracles; Muse Melpomene |
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Dagger |
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Muse Melpomene |
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Harpe |
knife, curved tip |
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See Wikipedia. Associated with Cronus.
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Quiver |
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Diana/Artemis; Apollo |
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Spear |
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Athena/Minerva; Mars/Ares
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Sword |
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any mortal hero; Archangel St. Michael; sometimes St. Paul; Biblical heroine Judith
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Thunderbolt |
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Zeus/Jove |
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grain, barley |
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Ceres wears grain stalks, usually highly stylized, in her hair & may also have grain springing from her bosom. |
| WINGS |
Butterfly |
on back |
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Psyche, sometimes Aurora/Eos; Aurora will usually have other clues to her identity such as an armload of flowers; nymphs; 5th & 6th Hours of the Night
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on head, shoulders, bosom |
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Psyche may have squared off wing(s) with eye spots on her brow or head, on her back, springing from her breast or any combination; wings on her shoulder usually turn out to be whole butterflies when examined |
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Feathered |
on back |
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Cupid/Eros; Nike; Aurora/Eos; angels |
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on cap and/or heels |
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Mercury/Hermes; Perseus |
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on head |
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female: Nike or Medusa
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on helmet |
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Perseus; Athena/Minerva |
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Grain |
on head |
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Ceres/Demeter or daughter Proserpina/Persephone |
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Grapevine |
on head |
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Dionysus/Bacchus, his female followers the maenads/bacchantes, or male companions, such as Silenus |
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Ivy |
on head |
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Dionysus/Bacchus, his female followers the maenads/bacchantes, or wife Ariadne; Antinous |
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Laurel |
on head |
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Apollo, or figures in the arts possessing the gifts of Apollo; victors in battle, many Roman emperors (the corona triumphalis) |
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held outstretched |
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Nike/Victoria |
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Mixed: grain, fruit, flowers |
on head |
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Ceres/Demeter |
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Oak |
on head |
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Zeus/Jupiter |