. The grammar of ornament . Assyrian. 29. ASSYRIAN AND PERSIAN ORNAMENT. The colours in use by the Assyrians appear to have been blue, red, white, and black, on theirpainted ornaments; blue, red, and gold, on their sculptured ornaments; and green, orange, buff, white,and black, on their enamelled bricks. The ornaments of Persepolis, represented on Plate XIV., appear to be modifications of Eomandetails. Nos. 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, are from bases of fluted columns, which evidently betray a Eoman influ-ence. The ornaments from Tak I Bostan,—17, 20, 21, 23, 24,—are all constructed on the sameprinciple as
. The grammar of ornament . Assyrian. 29. ASSYRIAN AND PERSIAN ORNAMENT. The colours in use by the Assyrians appear to have been blue, red, white, and black, on theirpainted ornaments; blue, red, and gold, on their sculptured ornaments; and green, orange, buff, white,and black, on their enamelled bricks. The ornaments of Persepolis, represented on Plate XIV., appear to be modifications of Eomandetails. Nos. 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, are from bases of fluted columns, which evidently betray a Eoman influ-ence. The ornaments from Tak I Bostan,—17, 20, 21, 23, 24,—are all constructed on the sameprinciple as Roman ornament, presenting only a similar modification of the modelled surface, such aswe find in Byzantine ornament, and which they resemble in a most remarkable manner. The ornaments, 12 and 16, from Sassanian capitals, Byzantine in their general outline, at BiSutoun, contain the germs of all the ornamentation of the Arabs and Moors. It is the earliest examplewe meet with of lozenge-shaped diapers. The Egyptians and the Assyrians a
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