The flora of the Assyrian monuments and its outcomes (1894)
Bonavia, Emanuel, 1826-1908 · Westminster, A. Constable · leaf 88
pictorial conventional representation— a symbol of the food and drink of the people. The Assyrians must have known the art of makingwine, for we see them drinking in various places. Thejuice of fruit mixed with water, as a sherbet is commonenough in all oriental countries. Even in ancient Egyptthis… … Fig. 23.—Vine tree, Rawlinsons Monarchies, vol. i, p. 518. ASSYRIAN MONUMENTS. 53 readily revealed to them the way of making a spirituousliquor, had not earlier people known that art. That later the land was noted, as flowing with cornand wine, is sufficiently recorded. The drinker of winewould…
Assyro-Babylonian religion · Botany -- History · Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian
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