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AN AJSTALVSIS OF THE 



Fig. 60. (*) 



Fig. 61. (t) 



Fig. 62. (t) 



hci'C 



(C.) The "Bunch of Dates." 



The third bears in many respects resemblance to the above figures. It, how- 

 ever, is f]-om an Egyptian source. It stands alone ; no forms intervening be- 

 tween it and the Mesopotamian model aid us in its identification. Chronology 

 comes to our assistance. It is described by Bunsen as the bunch of dates. 



(D.) The Greco-Persian Palm. 



In the fourth, found upon a Persian tomb, we have an ultimate which may have 

 originated in the transverse lines of Fig. 61. Development of this feature of the 

 palm-tree illustration is conspicuously seen in Fig. 64 ; also of a Persian source, 



Fig. 65. (H) 



Fig. 63. (§) 



acquaintance with which introduces us to the elaborate and characteristic ornament 

 of ancient Persia, Fig. 65, where the model is much disguised by Greek accessories. 

 It is interesting to notice that this development, based as it is upon the acanthus leaf 



* Same as B. Fig. 55 (enlarged). 



•|- Persian palm-tree. Eawlinson, ibid., Ill, 342. See also Rawlinson I, 433. 

 I Persian palm-tree. Rawlinson, ibid. , IV, 322. 

 § Wilson, I. c. 



I From Persian ornamentation. Travels in Persia, Porter. 



Tf Ibid., pi. 62. For the sake of convenience, but one half (the left) of this symmetrical design has been figured. 



