The flora of the Assyrian monuments and its outcomes (1894)
Bonavia, Emanuel, 1826-1908 · Westminster, A. Constable · leaf 156
om the collar. I have given it infig. 56. But why interpret this pen-dant into a lotus, when an unsophisticated eye could only see in it an ordinary bell, hanging from the bulls collar, which may probably be seen all over the world where cows are let loose in the jungle to graze ? The only… … Fig. 56.—Bull from pi. 65, fig. 5{ Grammar of the Lotus ). ASSYRIAN MONUMENTS. 121 these cones are lotus buds, I think I have suffi-ciently shown, in discussing the sacred trees (fig. 20)that these cones are probably no other than bunchesof grapes. Those ancient rude sculptors had an off-hand way…
Assyro-Babylonian religion · Botany -- History · Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian
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