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Nos. 15, 16 and 17 ; some are with seven, some with 

 7ii]ie, and others with eleve)i leaves. 



No. 50 ; some are with five, some with seven, and others 

 with nine leaves. 



No. 59 ; some with 7iine and others with eleven leaves. 



Basement. — No 90 ; all with nine leaves ; another base- 

 ment sculpture has them mostly with eleven, and a iQw 

 with nine leaves. 



Balazvat gates. — Three date trees are distinctly with 

 seven leaves ; two others are not clear ; all are very rudely 

 outlined, but are sufficient to indicate that the number 

 seven was in the artist's head. 



If then we classify those that can be easily made out 

 to mean date trees, we find that the number of leaves 

 varies from 5, 7, 9, to 11. 



But curiously enough the 'anthemion' borders in the 

 pavement of the palace of Sardanapalus (basement) have 

 all nine leaves, supported by horns. The 'anthemions' 

 of the North Palace, Kouyunjik, have all nine leaves ; 

 so have those of Nos. 99 and 100 (basement). 



We have here a number of sacred tree palmettes with 

 seven leaves, and one with nine. We have all these 

 pavement anthemions (palmettes) with nine leaves ; and 

 we have several realistic date trees with seven, and several 

 with nine leaves. 



As their shape is so much alike, we are not justified, 

 I think, in considering these three things, apart from 



