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  CORNU COPIAE - Online Information article about CORNU COPIAE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
HORN (a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat.
horn of plenty "), a horn; generally See also:
The symbol probably originated in the practice of using the horns of oxen and goats as drinking-cups; hence the rhyton (drinking-horn) is often confounded with the cornu copiae.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /COR_CRE/CORNU_COPIAE.html   (229 words)

  
 CORNU COPIAE - LoveToKnow Article on CORNU COPIAE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
, later CORNUCOPIA (" horn of plenty "), a horn; generally twisted, filled with fruit and flowers, or an ornament representing it.
It was used as a symbol of prosperity and abundance, and hence in works of art it is placed in the hands of Plutus, Fortuna and similar divinities (for the mythological account see AMALTHEIA).
For its representation in works of art, in which it is very common, especially in those belonging to the Roman period, see article in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire des Antiquites.
www.1911ency.org /C/CO/CORNU_COPIAE.htm   (137 words)

  
 January 2003 Letter of Acceptances and Returns
Gules, a bend bretessed between a hunting horn and a Danish axe argent.
In period armory, rams are usually drawn with very prominent horns that lie partially on the field, rather than having the horns lie entirely on the rest of the ram's head.
Chevronelly sable and argent, on a chief vert a drinking horn argent.
www.sca.org /heraldry/loar/2003/01/03-01lar.html   (13481 words)

  
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 Rune-Net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
On that tree of which none know from where its roots do run
With bread none saved me, nor with drinking horn
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