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FLORA OF THE 



Sacred trees. 

 Nimrood Gallery. — No. 2 has the main head with nine 

 leaves, and all the smaller circumferential heads with 



Fig. 53 — a. One on each side of a hunt- 

 ing group, pi. 25, fig. 6, Lajard, 

 ' Culte de Mithra ' ; b, Between two 

 fem. figures plucking the fruit, pi. 27, 

 fig. 7, ' Culte de Mithra.' 



seven. Nos. 37, 38 and 39 have all the heads, main 

 and circumferential, with seven. 



Near the steps leading to the basement there are two 

 sacred trees, with a double row of circumferential heads 

 — all have only sevoi leaves. 



Realistic date trees. 



Koiiynnjik Gallery. — Nos. 6, 7 and 8 ; some are with 

 nine leaves and some with eleven. 



