The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 39
a, examples dating frombetween 4000 and 3000 B.C., show notrace of Egyptian feeling, but containall the qualities and defects of Assy-rian art in embryo. Up to the present time, the art ofthe valleys of the Tigris and theEuphrates is known to us mainly bytwo groups of monuments; those ofTello,… … FIG. 25.—THE ARCHITECT OF TELLO. (The Louvre.) There are further great numbers ofsmall objects, notably seals in hardstone (called cylinders) on which arc engraved mythological or religiousscenes, which reveal the art of Chaldaeaand Assyria at every period of theirhistory, under the kings of…
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