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cord which connects him by its divine influence with the supreme deity, and who 1s 
repeated for symmetry. We also find the star and two small trees. As the palm- 
ette represents the palm-tree just started in growth (for the palm grows of full size 
from the ground and simply increases in height, but not in girth, each year), so 
in fig. 667 we have the palm while still a low tree. Of the same type is fig. 668 
with its border of angles. The palmette is seen many times in bas-reliefs. We 
have the same in fig. 669, where the upper register gives two worshipers before a 
tree of the older Assyrian type, surmounted by the divine disk, and a third worshiper 
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before a stand with a vase. The lower register shows a bull, a worshiper before a 
cow and calf attacked by a lion, and other emblems. Thus in fig. 670, from a bit of 
the embroidery on the royal garment of Assurnazirpal, we have a selection from a 
multitude of representations of both palmettes and sacred trees. It will be noticed 
that the fruit in these utterly conventional representations looks like pine cones, 
but it is rather to be thought of as the bunches of dates hanging from the tree. 
Even bunches of grapes are sometimes drawn with similar cross lines on the bas- 
reliefs. ‘These “cones” are often seen on the palmettes and equally terminating the 
branches of the trees of life; and the winged figures each side of the trees carry the 
same cones in one hand and a basket in the other. In fig. 671 the winged figure 
kneels with neither fruit nor basket in the hands stretched towards the fruit. In 
