Edwards, Amelia B.: Pharaohs, fellahs and explorers (New York, NY, 1892)

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noble and simple model for decorative purposes. Very slight-
ly conventionalized, it enriches the severe facades of tombs
of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth dynasties, which thus pre-
serve for us one of the earliest motives of symmetrical de-
sign in the history of ornament.

In the next illustration* we have the blossom and leaf of

NATURAL LOTUS IN BUD, BLOSSOM, AND SKKD-POD.

the blue lotus, and two seed-pods of the pink lotus. The
blossom is full-blown, and the calyx-leaves, which closely

* Abridged from an illustration to Mr. W. H. Goodyear's article in the
American Journal of Archceolorjy. Vol. iii.
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