ABSTRACT
Travellers depict some vestiges of ancient Oriental temples and the horrible ruins that accompanies them, used to house the attendants. These ruins revolt the beholder inasmuch as they make him detest the villainy that presided over such ravages. Our libraries are teeming with images of these precious vestiges in which we see that the types and symbols that decorated them were not the result of whim or arbitrary ornaments. One day things had to come to this, to a reflection worthy of these monuments. By what fate, going back almost two thousand years, did it come down to us?
