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have been, was sure, sooner or later, to have been 

 taken up by artists, and modified in various ways 

 into decorations for walls of temples, palaces, etc. 

 And so, in truth, we see these horns, at first probably 

 used solely from superstitious reasons, passing after- 

 wards into motives for various decorative purposes, the 

 artists themselves, in many instances, being perhaps 

 ignorant of the origin of the design. 



In Layard's ' Monuments of Niniveh,' 2nd series, 

 pi. 55, is shown a design from a painted brick, which 

 I have reproduced in fig. 68. 



Fig. 68. — Ornament on painted brick, 



Layard's ' Monuments,' 2nd series, FiG. 69. — Ornament on Frieze 



pl- 55- ' ErechtlieioH, Brit. Museum. 



This same motive, slightly altered, was taken up by 

 the Greeks for their friezes, etc. In the British Museum 

 there is a portion of the frieze of the Erechtheion, 

 fig. 69. Its ornamentation is no other than the motive 

 given by Layard on the painted brick alluded to, 



' Mr. Goodyear, in his ' Grammar of the Lotus,' denies that this has any- 

 thing to do with the date tree ; but of this more further on. 



