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- The caduceus (☤; /kəˈdjuːʃəs, -siəs/; Latin: cādūceus, from Ancient Gr****: κηρύκειον kērū́keion "herald's wand, or staff") is the staff carried by Hermes...
- shaping of the soft-brimmed petasos Hermes wears and the angle of the kerykeion in his left hand. Illustrated in M. Bieber, Ancient Copies, 1971, p. 41...
- 137. The Latin word cādūceus is an adaptation of the Gr**** κηρύκειον kērykeion, meaning "herald's wand (or staff)", deriving from κῆρυξ kēryx, meaning...
- Snakes composing a bronze kerykeion from the mythical Long**** river in Sicily...
- their patron and carried the caduceus (Latin corruption of Ancient Gr**** kerykeion), the herald’s staff. Robin Hard. The Routledge Handbook of Gr**** Mythology...
- Hermes depicted with a kerykeion (caduceus), a kithara, a petasos (round hat) and a traveler's cloak, Vatican Museums...
- Pisindelis. Obv: Winged female figure running right, head left, holding kerykeion in her right hand, and a victory wreath in left. Rev: Baetyl in incuse...
- This bronze kerykeion at the British Museum is the only object known that Long**** has given back apart the coin...
- Daniel O'****ny – August 2006 (2006-08) For years the great Labyrinth of Kerykeion has been home to one of the largest libraries of human incunabula in the...
- staff or kerykeion, in Latin caduceus. The attribute also offered him protection. Hermes, the messenger of the gods, also carries a kerykeion. Kerykeia...