The flora of the Assyrian monuments and its outcomes (1894)
Bonavia, Emanuel, 1826-1908 · Westminster, A. Constable · leaf 141
h the lotus. They may readilybe interpreted into a date-head of foliage and horns,and a pomegranate. The misfortune is that the lotusseed-pod of the Egyptian Monuments is rather conven-tional. In stone, the multiple limbs of the stigmaticstar were rendered by only three limbs ; and the bodyof the… … Fig. 42.—Assyrian palmette with lotus bulb, fig. 60, p. no,Grammar of the Lotus. It so happens that this conventional outline of thelotus pod assimilates with the real outline of a pome-granate, so that in many cases it is far from easy tosay this, and not that, was the model. A potter, copy-ing…
Assyro-Babylonian religion · Botany -- History · Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian
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