Torpedo rays in antiquity Man Charles Rolls at the wheel

Charles Rolls at the wheel of a 1904 Royce car

1936 Jaguar SS100

cutting a record

Interior view of St Paul's Cathedral when Richard Hunne was hanged as a heretic

England v Brazil international at Wembley

Torpedo rays in antiquity Man Charles Rolls at the wheelRepresentations of the Common torpedo (Torpedo torpedo) and the Marbled electric ray (Torpedo marmorata) from classical sources. Figures 1 5 show the Common torpedo as drawn or painted on amphorae, a pinax (votive tablet) and a patera (libation bowl). Figure 6 shows the Marbled electric ray from a small pinax. Plate 3 from the monograph Die Gattung Torpedo in ihren naturhistorischen antiquarischen Beziehungen [The natural history and antiquarian