Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 323
s square temple. This black stone is supposed to be ameteorolite, hem.ispherical in shape, and about 6 by 8 302 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. inches in the widest dimension. Some hundreds of stoneimages or gods used to be worshipped at Mecca bythe Mohammedans in their early days, or in what they calltheir… … Fig. 341.—Arabesque Ornament from the Wckiila of Kait Bey. (L.-P.j gospels, the Talmud, and possibly a good many originalpassages of his own, which he says he received from themouth of the angel Gabriel in visions. The Mohammedancreed contains its essence in the words:— There is noGod, but God, and…
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