Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 903
32, 733 from a rock-cut relief of the Sargonid dynasty {c. 700 B.C.) atC. 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 w^/z/y—sphinxes, griffins, lions,panthers, the lotos, the palmette, even the Assyrian tree… … Fig. 734- 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…
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