Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 170
tL on the trunk, no doubt meant for the bark roughening lines.The surrounding palmates may be meant to represent a leafyenclosure for the sacred tree in the centre, or the wholething may be a converttional picture of a sacred grove. CHALDEAN AND ASSYRIAN ART. 149 Owing to the comparative lateness… … Fig. 199.—Upper Portion of a Tree of Life ; from Layard. (P. & C.) flower form was introduced into Assyria by the articles inbronze, ivory, and other material by the Phoenician traders,
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