The flora of the Assyrian monuments and its outcomes (1894)
Bonavia, Emanuel, 1826-1908 · Westminster, A. Constable · leaf 143
choice dates,and therefore were not likely to make presents of lotusseed-pods. Again, why should we suppose those Assyrianpeople to have had such bad taste as to have selected,as an ornament, the ugly lotus bulb shown by Mr.Goodyear,^ when they had a lovely red-cheeked pome- 1 In the wall-paintings… … granate in their own gardens ? What Mr. Goodyearcalls a lotus bulb, in his fig. 60, is as good a pome-granate outline as any rude art can make it. Then fig. 43 shows anothercombination of the Assyrianpalmette with the Egyptianlotus bud. We cannot releaseour minds from those Assyrian luck-horns tied…
Assyro-Babylonian religion · Botany -- History · Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian
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