Category | Sub-category | Detail | Identity; Possible Symbolism; Definition | |
WARRIOR | see CENTURION |
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WEAPONS | Arrow(s) | Diana/Artemis; Apollo; Cupid/Eros | ||
Bow | Apollo; Diana/ArtemisDiana/Artemis; Cupid; Actaeon; Orion; unknown hunter; Odysseus/Ulysses | |||
Club | Hercules/Heracles; Muse Melpomene | |||
Dagger | Muse Melpomene | |||
Harpe | knife, curved tip | See Wikipedia. Associated with Cronus. |
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Quiver | Diana/Artemis; Apollo | |||
Spear | Athena/Minerva; Mars/Ares |
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Sword | any mortal hero; Archangel St. Michael; sometimes St. Paul; Biblical heroine Judith |
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Thunderbolt | Zeus/Jove | |||
WHEAT | grain, barley | Ceres wears grain stalks, usually highly stylized, in her hair & may also have grain springing from her bosom. | ||
WINGS | Butterfly | on back | 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 | 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 | |||
Feathered | on back | Cupid/Eros; Nike; Aurora/Eos; angels | ||
on cap and/or heels | Mercury/Hermes; Perseus | |||
on head | female: Nike or Medusa |
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on helmet | Perseus; Athena/Minerva | |||
WREATH | Grain | on head | Ceres/Demeter or daughter Proserpina/Persephone | |
Grapevine | on head | Dionysus/Bacchus, his female followers the maenads/bacchantes, or male companions, such as Silenus | ||
Ivy | on head | Dionysus/Bacchus, his female followers the maenads/bacchantes, or wife Ariadne; Antinous | ||
Laurel | on head | Apollo, or figures in the arts possessing the gifts of Apollo; victors in battle, many Roman emperors (the corona triumphalis) | ||
held outstretched | Nike/Victoria | |||
Mixed: grain, fruit, flowers | on head | Ceres/Demeter | ||
Oak | on head | Zeus/Jupiter |