ASSYRIAN MONUMENTS. 



117 



shows us plainly what the Greek anthemion came 

 from. 



Fig. 54-— (a) Hem. cylinder, 77-6-12-2, Cyprus, about 600 B.C. 

 {i>) Hem. cylinder, British Museum, about 400 B.C. 



(c) PI. 31, fig. 2, cylinder, ' Culte de Mithra.' 



(d) From pi. 39, fig. 8, Lajard's ' Culte de Mithra.' 

 {g) From pi. 52, fig. 4, Lajard's ' Culte de Mithra.' 



(/) From Basalt, Chaldean cylinder. Louvre, Parrot et 

 Chipiez, vol. ii, p. 267. 



{£■, h, i) From clay moulds found in Tel-el- Ajyiarna, ex- 

 hibited by Mr. Flinders Petrie, 19 September, 1892. 



Those ancient engravers and moulders had various 



