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granate in their own gardens ? What Mr. Goodyear 

 calls a lotus bulb, in his fig. 60, is as good a pome- 

 granate outline as any rude art can make it. 



Then fig. 43 shows another 

 combination of the Assyrian 

 palmette with the Egyptian 

 lotus bud. We cannot release 

 our minds from those Assyrian 

 ' luck-horns ' tied on, which, in 

 their sacred trees, are too 

 realistic to be ignored. They 

 moreover are not required Fig. 43- --Palmette and lotus bud 



T^ from tig. 61, 'Grammar of the 



botanicaJly under the lotus bud\ 



Mr. Goodyear, in a note to page 119, says: "In 

 the Annual Report of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 

 i8go, Mr. Petrie still adheres to the old notion of a 

 derivation of the Ionic capital from the horns of a 

 ram, and supposes that the Greeks borrowed the Ionic 

 volute from Asia." 



I have no doubt that Mr. Petrie is right. Mr. 

 Goodyear's figs. 8 and 14, pi. 13, would support that 

 view. Of course if you consider that the anthemion 

 (palmette) is a derivation from the lotus stigma, and 

 the scrolls a derivation from the sepals of the lotus 

 flower, and that this is the ' truth, the whole truth, 

 and nothing but the truth,' you may say Petrie is 

 wrong. But no one looking at fig. 14, pi. 13 (here 



