Torpedo rays in antiquity Man cutting a record

cutting a record

Charles Rolls at the wheel of a 1904 Royce car

Portrait of an elderly man with thinning grey hair and a rather stern expression

1936 Jaguar SS100

Torpedo rays in antiquity Man cutting a recordRepresentations 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