Fig. 139.— Il-a^jment of a sarcophagus. Description, v. 47. beheaded, and the decorator has wished, by the use of a some-what barbarous though graceful motive, to suggest the exploitsof him for whom the sepulchre was destined. Not much variety was to be obtained from the use of thesegrooves, but… … Fig. 140.—Fragment of decoration from a royal tomb at Thebes. Descriptioi, ii. 86. they afforded linear combinations which had some power to pleasethe eye. The Assyrians made use of hardly any other mode ofbreaking up the uniformity of their brick walls. It has been asserted that the first signs of…
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