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

THE BIRTHPLACE OF GREEK DECORATIVE ART. 181

The only relics of this second temple are here reproduced
from a photograph by Mr. Petrie. Scant though they are,
they at all events show
to what skill the
Greeks of Naukratis
had by this time at-
tained in the art of
decorative sculpture.
Among these frag-
ments we note an an-
themion, some bits of
the so-called Oriental
palmette, and a few
scraps of lotus pattern,
naturalistically treated.
That the anthemion
and the palmette are

lotus motives conventionally treated has been conclusively
demonstrated by Mr. W. H. Goodyear in a series of exam-
ples from Egyptian, Cypriote, Greek, and Gra?co-Roman

monuments, which

FRAGMKNTS OF SHAFT, ETC., FROM THE ARCHAIC
TEMPLE OF APOLLO, NAUKRATIS.

1£\.

trace the evolution

of these forms step

by step, and leave no

room for debate.(")

It is impossible in

the course of a few

pages to do more

than touch upon

some of the more

striking instances of

the influence of the

lotus upon Greek

decorative art. The

subject, as a whole, is too complicated and too extensive for

summary treatment. It will, however, be interesting to glance

at two or three more examples of lotus designs, beginning

FRAGMENTS FROM THE SECOND TEMPLE OF APOLLO
NAUKRATIS.