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Excerpt from The Flora of the Assyrian Monuments and Its Outcomes Horns as protection against the Evil Eye - Legends con nected with date trees - Delineation of fire on Assyrian Monuments - Modern use of Horns - Horn symbols as orna ments in Assyria - 'fleur-de-lys' as a horn emblem - Curious developments of horn emblems - Possible origin of the Prince. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.