Analysis of ornament. The characteristics of styles : an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art (1860)
Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 47
is explained as signifying the overthrow of theAssyrian power by the Persian. The Persepolitan, like theAssyrian sculptures, are inscribed with the arrow-headed cha-racters. The name of Sennacherib, who was murdered by his own sonsin 711, is the oldest name yet discovered in the inscriptions; andas… … EGYPTIAN ORNAMENT. 41 ever, belong to the seventh century before our era ; but the ruinsare found in three distinct places—Khorsabad, Kouyunjik, andNimroud, apparently much too remote from each other ever tohave constituted a single city. The so-called north-west palace,that of Nimroud, is supposed…
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