The flora of the Assyrian monuments and its outcomes / by E. Bonavia.

  • Bonavia, E. (Emanuel), 1826?-1908.
Date:
1894
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Credit: The flora of the Assyrian monuments and its outcomes / by E. Bonavia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX. N.B.—The headings in large type are for all the sub-headings that follow. A. Adam and Eve, supposed cylinder of, ii8. Amulets, clay, with sacred tree, ‘ Tel-el-Amarna,’ 98. ANTHEMION, or palmette, origin of, 99 and 103 ; with lotus bud and Assyrian luck-horns, figure of, 107 ; with pomegranate (or lotus bulb), figures of, 105. ASSYRIANS—ancient contact with Egyptians, 103; art of tanning among, 56; character of, xv; degradation of symbols among, xxiv ; ‘key of life,’ probable meaning of, among, xix; mistake of inter- preters about tabernacle, xvii; mistakes of interpreters, due to smallness of sculpture slab, xvii; mixture of the natural with the supernatural among, xxi and xxv ; poetry of, xv ; sexes of date tree known to, 73 ; transformations of symbols among, xix and xxiii; ‘ tree of life, ’ probable meaning among, xix; vine common among, 51 ; wine known to, 52. B. BANANA, 15; antiquity of, in Asia, 17; brought to Babylon by traders, 20; character of fruit, 22; figures of, 15 and 22; geo- graphical distribution, 16; history of, 15; origin of name, 18; propagation by seed, 19. BAOBAB, 35; figure of, 37; geographical distribution, 35-6; Hindoo name for, 37. Bident received from Deity, 78. BULL and lotus, Mr. Goodyear’s, 120; vast strength of, xiii.