The flora of the Assyrian monuments and its outcomes (1894)
Bonavia, Emanuel, 1826-1908 · Westminster, A. Constable · leaf 144
ht. Mr.Goodyears figs. 8 and 14, pi. 13, would support thatview. Of course if you consider that the anthemion(palmette) is a derivation from the lotus stigma, andthe scrolls a derivation from the sepals of the lotusflower, and that this is the truth, the whole truth,and nothing but the truth, you… … Fig. 44.—Greek anthemion with introrse scrolls, from pi. 13, fig. 14, Grammarof the Lotus. But considering that some forms of Assyrian wingeddiscs, 1 representing, it is said, the Deity, have prominenthorns, nothing would seemeasier for a Greek artistthan to reverse the hornsof the disc and…
Assyro-Babylonian religion · Botany -- History · Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian
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