The oldest use of the lotus was in groups of two flowers tied together by the stalks; such are found on the prehistoric pottery at Koptos, and on the earliest tombs. But in later times this became corrupted, and the origin apparently forgotten, by the XVIIIth dynasty.
Fig. 114.
115.—L.D. II. 52. P. [74].
Fig. 116.
117.—P. [79].
