Knops and open flowers - Rather, “gourds and opening flower-buds.” Imitations of the vegetable world are among the earliest of architectural ornaments. They abound in the architecture of Egypt and Persia. In that of Assyria they occur more sparingly.
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1 Kings 6:18
18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knopsc and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.