Egyptian decorative art : a course of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution /by W.M. Flinders Petrie (1920)
Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942 · London : Methuen · leaf 135
he palm, while thelotus and papyrus only were reached bythem in Egypt itself. The base is amain difficulty to explain. It might beconventionalised clods of earth, with twocurled-over side branches of the palm ;but it has been so modified that we mustawait more evidence. In any case thestem is… … SYMBOLICAL DECORATION 121 supposed that these symboHse northernand southern Egypt, and that the groupmeans the union of all the land. Still itis yet uncertain what plants are intendedto be represented, though on the throneof Tahutimes IV. they are clearly lotusand papyrus; but the evidence is too…
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