Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 906
2, 733 from a rock-cut relief of the Sargonid dynasty (c. 700 B.C.) at C. II. 49 770 Modifications in the shape end to end. Between 650 and 550 B.C. it brought the potter, forexample, a profusion of possible motifs—sphinxes, griffins, lions,panthers, the lotos, the palmette, even the Assyrian tree… … plains of Mesopotamia or passed through the ruined portals ofNineveh: he was but repeating, for the sake of their decorativeeffect, designs that had been transmitted to him along the caravan-routes of anterior Asia. Accordingly it is not surprising to find thatthe lotiform lightning-fork of late…
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