Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 67
the sort called applied^ i.e., addedafter the completion of the structure itself. Pictures inlow relief covered the alabaster revetment. They depictedhunting-scenes, battles, deities, and other mythological sub-jects, and are interesting to the architect mainly for theiroccasional representations… … FIG. 20.—ASSYRIAN ORNAMENT. motives ; winged bulls, the sacred tree and mytholog-ical monsters, with rosettes, palmettes, lotus-flowers, andgtdlloches (ornaments of interlacing bands winding aboutregularly spaced buttons or eyes). These ornaments werealso used on the archivolts around the great…
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