a sepia tinted page with about two dozen reproductions of octopus-like emblems from ancient European or Middle Eastern sources
a sepia tinted page with about two dozen reproductions of stylized cross emblems from ancient European or Middle Eastern sources
from Decorative Patterns of the Ancient World, by Petrie Flinders, 1930: "Octopus" and "Cross Emblems, Pagan and Christian Age"
The book is free on the Internet Archive with over a hundred pages of blackline motifs. I would love to find a similar book with [โฆ]
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