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FLORA OF THE 



reproduced, fig. 44), would say that those scrolls re- 

 present anything but ram's horns. Nevertheless, one 

 may be wrong. 



Fig. 44. — Greek anthemion with introrse scrolls, from pi. 13, fig. 14, 'Grammar 

 of the Lotus.' 



But considering that some forms of Assyrian winged 

 discs, 1 representing, it is said, the Deity, have prominent 

 horns, nothing would seem 

 easier for a Greek artist 

 than to reverse the horns 

 of the disc and make 

 them the capital of an 

 Ionic column, as shown 

 in fig. 45. We know 

 that the Assyrian artists 

 themselves used horns as 



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Fig. 45 — Assyrian winged disc and 

 capital of Ionic column. 



capitals of columns, such as those of figs. 66 and "jj. 



Fig. 8, pi. 22, of the 'Grammar' shows another marriage 

 of the Assyrian palmette with the Egyptian lotus. The 

 horns supporting the palmette are made to develop lotus 



' It is not improbable that the dove with spread wings of Christian 

 artists, representing the Holy Ghost, was borrowed from the winged disc 

 of the Assyrians. 



