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The flora of the Assyrian monuments and its outcomes (1894)

Bonavia, Emanuel, 1826-1908 · Westminster, A. Constable · leaf 153

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The hanging bunches of dates of some, Mr. Goodyearmight perhaps be able to say, are meant for lotus buds ;but the pinnate leaves of others cannot be interpretedinto lotus petals ! and the two features combined stampthem unmistakably as date trees. The moulds withthese same Assyrian trees, found in… … Fig. 54-—(a) Hem. cylinder, 77-6-12-2, Cyprus, about 600 B.C.{i>) Hem. cylinder, British Museum, about 400 B.C. (c) PI. 31, fig. 2, cylinder, Culte de Mithra. (d) From pi. 39, fig. 8, Lajards Culte de Mithra.{g) From pi. 52, fig. 4, Lajards Culte de Mithra. (/) From Basalt, Chaldean cylinder.…

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