At 06:45 24/11/97 +0100, you wrote:
>There's an especially fine one from St Mary's Abbey, York, I think now in
>the York Museum where he is not only horned but carries the caduceus, the
>rod twined with serpents.
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>Julia Bolton Holloway, [log in to unmask]
Dear Julia:
It is not the caduceus -which would be a very odd motif for Moses-
but an allusion to the brazen serpent, interpreted as a symbol of Christ's
passion.
Carlos
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