The flora of the Assyrian monuments and its outcomes (1894)
Bonavia, Emanuel, 1826-1908 · Westminster, A. Constable · leaf 84
in thosedays it must have been growing everywhere like aweed. This plant, with its slender stem, must haveoften been seen climbing up date trees, and festooning itself among them. So thatprobably the sacred tree shownin fig. 16 may be an artisticand conventional combinationof a date tree, with the… … Fig. 20.—Sacred tree (Nimrood).Ravvlinsons Five Great Mon-archies, p. 7. ASSYRIAN MONUMENTS. 49 shown in its winter aspect, without leaves or fruit. Butthe Assyrians had another form of sacred tree, in whichbunches of grapes are made to decorate its contour, asshown in fig. 20. It is true that they…
Assyro-Babylonian religion · Botany -- History · Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian
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