Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 195
orate sculpture from the facadeof Mshatta (Ch. XIII) with its simi-lar suggestion of textile methods.In this work, the date of which liessomewhere between the fourth andthe seventh centuries,7 classicalmouldings are found, but the bulkof the ornament is Persian, a factwhich is readily explained if,… … Fig. 99. Closure-slab of the ninth or tenth cen-tury. Metropolitan Church, Mistra. (Hautes Etudes:G. Millet.) 1 Kondakoff, Monuments of Christian Art on Mount Athos, p. 42. Some of the slabs on thisfountain, with peacocks, beasts, &c, in interlaced borders, are probably later than a.d. 1200,and…
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