Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 718
s(P. Gardner, Sculptured Tombs of Hellas, PI. XIV^. 1 J. Strzygowski, Mshatta (Prussian Jahrbuch, 1904), 280 ff. MOTIVES ADOPTED FEOM HELLENISTIC SOUECES 693 with the space which they enclose, detached and filled with a solid colour.1They either form continuous bands, as upon the Persian textiles,2… … Fig. 441. The Virgin and Child(?): silk textile of the sixth-seventh century; the border showsdegraded palmettes. (Victoria and Albert Museum.) like manner a palmette derivative.4 It also occurs on the slab at Torcelloalready mentioned. A somewhat similar form, though less flamboyant, had beenin…
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