6o THE DEVELOPMENT OF Assyrian arrangement is shown. Two winged human forms with eagles' heads stand facing a palm-tree, to which they present with their upraised hands objects, which reference to the large panels enables us to identify as palm blossoms, whilst each in the other hand FIG. 44-… … The well - known sculptured group occupying the tympanum of the 1 Lion Gate ' at Mycenae is a further example 1 In these compositions the genii are engaged in artificially fertilizing the female palm with male blooms, a practice necessary for their cultivation, as may be gathered from the following…
Decoration and ornament
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