Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism. With an essay on Baal worship, on the Assyrian sacred "grove" and other allied symbols by John Newton
A comparative study of religious symbols by Liverpool physician Thomas Inman, with an appended essay by John Newton on Baal worship and the Assyrian sacred grove, published by J.W. Bouton in New York in 1875 for antiquarian and freethinking readers. Line drawings copy cylinder seals, coins, amulets and architectural ornament: hatched figures, rosette trees, stars, crescents and frontal faces, all usable as flat black-line motifs.
