Or was the susian design adopted in the West and given a symbolic meaning which it did not have before then?
"The Evolution of the Dragon"
G. Elliot Smith
I have enumerated them merely to suggest that any hasty inferences regarding the bearing of the susian design upon the general problem are apt to be misleading.
"The Evolution of the Dragon"
G. Elliot Smith
In any case, we have serious reasons for thinking that the third of the dynasties of Berosus, with its eleven kings, was of susian origin.
"A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1"
Georges Perrot Charles Chipiez