ASSYRIAN MONUMENTS. 



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will, sooner or later, find expression in the represen- 

 tations of artists. 



Although Miss Edwards thinks that Mr. Goodyear 

 has ' conclusively demonstrated ' that the ' anthemion ' is 

 a lotus motive, yet I think the ligature, where it occurs, 

 betrays its real origin, as the head of a date tree with 

 horns tied on it. 



The spiral horns, ending in a volute, shown between 

 two sphinxes in fig. 88, can by no manner of means 

 be interpreted into a lotus ! but they readily assimilate 

 with a pair of spiral horns. 



Then we have to take into consideration that a scroll 

 does not necessarily mean either 

 a lotus sepal or a horn ; for 

 here is an Egyptian head, 

 fig. 60, with two elaborate 

 scrolls, which evidently mean 

 only hair-curls I So there may 

 be volutes and volutes — volutes 

 originating in lotus petals and 



.1 • 1 • 1 1 Fig. 60. — Egyptian head, case of 



Others m horns, m curls, and glassbeadi, amulets, etc., British 



Museum. 



may be other things. 



In conclusion I would mention that on p. 126, 

 Mr. Goodyear (1891) says: "The relations of certain 

 details of this pattern to Byzantine scrolls, Arab trefoils, 

 and Mediaeval ' fleur-de-lys,' will not escape attention " 

 ('Saracenic Algerian Detail,' fig. 78, p. 127). 



