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This type of artistic allegory goes all the way back to Roman times...the American use of such symbolism is because of the re-newed taste for neo-classicism several times within the past two...

The holding of an olive branch and a gun would have been artistic allegory, much like the statue of Justice I mentioned before with her blindfold and scales.

I think it possibly stood for "Peace...

I really don't think the statue was Roland. It would be equivalent to stautes on couthouses in the U.S.A. of 'Justice'. Since gunslingers were the recognized givers of law and order in Roland's...