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terranean Sea. Among the variants we have ventured to assign to tliis origin, there 

 are at least six, which at first sight have no connection with one another : 



Ficf. 55. 



A. (*) B. (t) C. a) D- (§) 



E. (1) 



F. (H) 



(A) The Sacred Tree of Assyria. 



The Jirst is seen upon tlie head-dress of Babylonian figures, and would appear 

 from the following sequence to be a miniature representation of the Assyrian Sacred 

 Tree. 



Fig. 56, (**) 



Fig. 57. (H) 



(B.) Tlie Palm-Tree proper. 



The second is a figure of the entire tree found upon a cylinder and securing for 

 us through two variants, an origin in the conventional palm of Persia. 



* From dress of Babylonian king, Rawlinson, Five An, Monarchies, III, 400. 

 \ From Babylonian cylinder, Sabsean Researches, John Landseer, Lond. 1823. 



t Egyptian hieroglyphic "Bunch of Dates," Bunsen, I, 521. This figure has not been faithfully rendered. In 

 the main features, however, it is correct, 



§ Persian figure upon coin. Wilson, Antiquities and Coins of Afghanistan, pi. 15, f. 23. Tlie central shaft 

 should unite all the transverse pieces. Prof. Lesley believes this to be of Egyptian origm. 



II Greek honeysuckle ornament. Hope's Ancient Costumes, I, 72. 



T[ Ornament upon Etruscan tablet. Dennis, Etruria, 1 , 52. 



**-|t Same as fig. 1, from lower border of the king's dress. 



From Layard, I. c, Rawlinson, ibid., II, 235. 



The Assyrian Sacred Tree, Layard, Nineveli and its Remains, II, 233, 

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