The flora of the Assyrian monuments and its outcomes (1894)
Bonavia, Emanuel, 1826-1908 · Westminster, A. Constable · leaf 131
of thesacred trees of Assyria. It appears to be essen-tially an Egyptian feature,as shown in fig. ^^y ; andAssyrian decorative art-ists, from close contact ofthe two nations, had evi-dently borrowed the lotus-motive from Egypt. Mr. W. H. Goodyearhas published an admir-able work entitled, TheGrammar… … Fig. 37—Egyptian type, showing leaf,flower and bud of Lotus, pi. 3, fig 6(Grammar of the Lotus). 96 FLORA OF THE infer from his reasoning that there was no other plantknown to the ancients. It will be necessary, though wearisome, to enter intothis subject in some detail, in order to show that…
Assyro-Babylonian religion · Botany -- History · Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian
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