Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 617
es. For an example, with addorsed eagles, in theKunstgewerbe-Museum at Berlin, see Lessing, Pt. I, PI. I. 592 TEXTILES elements.1 The derivative type, in which both mounted and unmounted horse-men appear, and the name ZAXAPIOYisinwoven above, must be Christian. Ex-amples are in the British and… … Fig. 372. Silk textile of the eighth or ninth century. (Victoria and Albert Museum.) are also of Persian derivation ; like the hunter motive they appear to havebeen also reproduced beyond the limits of the Sassanian Empire. Such motiveswere adopted not only by Byzantine and Greek, but by Saracenic…
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