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killful handling of the flower and its cruder exe-cution, the copy rather than the original. Other examples of floral spirals are to be found in Baby-lonia and Assyria. Fig. 7 shows an Egyptian king holding a 4 lotus stalk. This small ivory carving wasfound in Assyria and goes to prove, amongother… … J Tvory Carvtnc BriTTsK MuS£Ltnn_. 1- 1600 to 1100 BC ^Berlin dating, or 1580 to 952 (Petrie,. 2- See Durm, Baukunst der Griechen, Plate opposite p. 31 0r Schlienann, Tiryns Plate V. 3- See Perrot and Chipiez, Vol VI, 4- See Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum, 1908,…
