Smith, G. Elliot (Grafton Elliot), Sir, 1871-1937 · Manchester, The University press; London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green & company · leaf 247
palm-tree-like arms {/). (/) Sepia ofpcii/al/s (after Tryon). (//) and (/) The so-called spouting vases in the hands of the Baby-lonian god Ea, from a cylinder seal of the time of Gudea, Patesi of Tello,after Ward ( Seal Cylinders, etc., p. 215). The spouting vases have been placed in conjunction… … Fic3. 24. THE BIRTH OF APHRODITE 181 may have arisen fiom the confusion between the latter and the cowry,which no doubt was also in part due to the belief that both the shelland the plant were expressions of the vital powers of the water inwhich they developed. The identification of the Great…
