The flora of the Assyrian monuments and its outcomes / by E. Bonavia.
- Emanuel Bonavia
- Date:
- 1894
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The flora of the Assyrian monuments and its outcomes / by E. Bonavia. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![hand of Husain, their martyr. I do not believe this, as the open hand was an emblem of something which I have discussed further on, long before Husain was born. And the Shiahs may have adopted it as an c Fig. 97.—Standards used in the celebration of the Mohurrum. From Hughes’ ‘ Dictionary of Islam.’ The lower part of [a] is formed of bunches of hair from the tails of horses. emblem of their martyr, much as the Christians may perhaps have adopted the Assyrian ‘ ankh ’ as an emblem of their martyr. On the cylinders we find figures putting up either one hand, usually the right,^ or both hands. Then the 1 See Prof. Sayce’s ‘ Hibbert Lectures,’ p. 70.—“The uplifting of his hand finds favour with the god.” a](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24854852_0233.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
