The flora of the Assyrian monuments and its outcomes (1894)
Bonavia, Emanuel, 1826-1908 · Westminster, A. Constable · leaf 138
in recognizing is thatthis lotus-model was the sole one which gave origin toall ancient oriental decorations, of whatever nation. In pi. 3, fig. 10, of the Grammar of the Lotus itbecomes evident to me that the lotus flower began to becombined with a date-palm leaf. And in pi. ii, fig. iand pi. 6],… … Fig. 40—(;;) from pi. ii, fig. i ; [h] from pi. 67, fig. 2.Gram, of the Lotus. ASSYRIAN MONUMENTS. 103 The Assyrian and Egyptian artists each appear tohave had a different plant as a prevalent ornament.The Assyrians had the palmette, ^ supported by luck-horns, and the Egyptians had the lotus leaf,…
Assyro-Babylonian religion · Botany -- History · Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian
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