Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 717
ich it once held in the artsof Egypt, of Hither Asia, and Greece. Its importance in Byzantine art lies ratherin the transmission of its characteristics to forms of a quite different origin, inthe palmettizing to which it gave rise at a comparatively early date, and inthe dismemberment and… … Fig. 440. Silk textile of the sixth-seventh century found in the Sancta Sanctorum, now inthe Vatican Library, showing palmettes and heart-shaped leaves. Mshatta, which no one would date later than the seventh century and some assignto the fourth. It is difficult to see in what quarter except…
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