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History of Garden Art
time the artist had learned how to represent flowers
in a thoroughly natural way, and in the relief from
the northern palace at Kuyundjik the lily is depicted
(Fig. 36), sometimes in bud, sometimes in full bloom,
growing on its slender stalk; and these attractive
flowers are in a grove of pines and palms, placed
between the trunks of the trees, which are planted
in regular alternation.
Another tablet in the same relief has flowers,
but the particular kind is not easily determined.
The trees show that the same park is meant, but
beside the flowers and under the trees there are two
lions (Fig. 37). Huntsmen show us that this is the
royal park, for on the other side they are dashing
through the wood with a couple of dogs. Overhead
the vine, delicately and accurately drawn, is twining
from trunk to trunk.
If we may trust the memorial records we
possess, the vineyard underwent a change in the
fig. 36. lilies from the northern t{WJ> 0f prince. The earlier monuments always
palace at kuyundjik , , . . , 111
show the vine creeping on the ground, and these
date from Sennacherib's time. In addition there are only figures of individual plants
without any leaning towards naturalistic treatment, except that here and there we find
several vines grouped close together. But in Assurbanipal's time the vine is seen climb-
ing from tree to tree, which implies some sort of training, such as one finds in Italy
to-day, and very often in the Orient. At the king's palace the park shows no essentially
different character. On another carving of the same series the king is shown having a
meal in the open with his wife (Fig. 38). He reposes on a lordly couch; and on a seat,
fig. 37. an assyrian hunting-park with vine-branches and lilies, kuyundjik
History of Garden Art
time the artist had learned how to represent flowers
in a thoroughly natural way, and in the relief from
the northern palace at Kuyundjik the lily is depicted
(Fig. 36), sometimes in bud, sometimes in full bloom,
growing on its slender stalk; and these attractive
flowers are in a grove of pines and palms, placed
between the trunks of the trees, which are planted
in regular alternation.
Another tablet in the same relief has flowers,
but the particular kind is not easily determined.
The trees show that the same park is meant, but
beside the flowers and under the trees there are two
lions (Fig. 37). Huntsmen show us that this is the
royal park, for on the other side they are dashing
through the wood with a couple of dogs. Overhead
the vine, delicately and accurately drawn, is twining
from trunk to trunk.
If we may trust the memorial records we
possess, the vineyard underwent a change in the
fig. 36. lilies from the northern t{WJ> 0f prince. The earlier monuments always
palace at kuyundjik , , . . , 111
show the vine creeping on the ground, and these
date from Sennacherib's time. In addition there are only figures of individual plants
without any leaning towards naturalistic treatment, except that here and there we find
several vines grouped close together. But in Assurbanipal's time the vine is seen climb-
ing from tree to tree, which implies some sort of training, such as one finds in Italy
to-day, and very often in the Orient. At the king's palace the park shows no essentially
different character. On another carving of the same series the king is shown having a
meal in the open with his wife (Fig. 38). He reposes on a lordly couch; and on a seat,
fig. 37. an assyrian hunting-park with vine-branches and lilies, kuyundjik