Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 166
.C., at the time when Assyria had invaded andoccupied the Delta of Egypt. If not the lotus flower, some-thing very like has been found on monuments in Assyriamuch older than these dates. As the result of some recent scientific examinations intothe origin of pattern, some investigators have decided… … they bear a not very clear resemblance to such trimmingsas we see on the tabernacle on the Balawat gates (Fig.197), &c. We admit that there is a fancied resemblance inVOL. I. L
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