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leaves instead of horn scrolls. When new motives are 

 admitted into a decorative artist's head, various sugges- 

 tions and new combinations arise. We see this in our 

 modern decorative artists. They borrow motives from 

 every source and weave them into new combinations, to 

 produce patterns pleasing to the eye. 



In fig. 19, pi. 20, which I reproduce in fig. 46, is shown 

 what Mr. Goodyear calls a Cypriote lotus, associated with 

 the rosette. This rosette he supposes 

 to be suggested by the stigma of the 

 lotus ovary. We should not, however, 

 forget that the Assyrian sculptors re- 

 produced a daisy-like ^ flower (pro- 

 bably Hieraciiuii paiuiosiiui), which 

 their jewellers may have copied, and 

 their sculptors reproduced on the King's bracelets and 

 several others places. 



The Assyrian daisy-like rosettes given in fig. 47 

 have a central double ring, and this probably has a 



Fig. 46 — Cypriote 

 lotus, showing asso- 

 ciation with rosette, 

 pi. 20, fig. 19, 'Grain, 

 of Lotus.' 



Fig. 47. — Assyrian rosettes, more 

 like daisies than stigmas of 

 otus. 



Fig. 48. — Daisy copied from 

 painted glazed tile, in Mr. 

 Flinders Petrie'sexhibition. 



^ No. 76, basement British Museum. 



