Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 87
the organic link-ing of the units—nolonger merely strung along a straight line as inmost Egyptian examples—marks a decided decora-tive advance. Whether the frequent use of branch-ing and opposed double volutes (Fig. 71), so com-mon in Assyrian decoration, was derived from the vo-lutes of the… … Fig. to. a, b. Pine axd LotusBorder; c. Detail of SacredTree. CHALDEA AND ASSYRIA palm-tree also becomes unimportant if one simply ad-mits that the decorative motive was derived from orsuggested by the Egyptian lotus-palmette, but wastreated in detail by the Assyrians in a manner plainlysuggesting…
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