lotus-pattern

Updated: May 27, 2025

Everywhere are immense blocks of chiselled stone worked into the ephemeral Arab clay as doorsteps or lintels, or lying about at random, or utilized as seats at the house entrance; they date from Roman or earlier times columns, too, some of them adorned with the lotus-pattern, the majority unpretentious and solid. What do the natives think of these relics of past civilization?

Norman Douglas - Fountains in the Sand : Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia