The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 41
brought by M. Dieulafoyfrom Susa; but the exploration of thetemples and palaces of Babylon hasonly just begun. The Assyrians had no buildingstone. They used bricks for the con-struction of their vast palaces, com-posed of rectangular halls and longcorridors surrounding a series ofinterior courts,… … FIG. 2Q.—ASSYRIAN BAS-RELIEF. (British Museum.)(Photo, by Manscll.) image of the god (Fig. 31). Thiswas the traditional type of the famousTower of Babel, a temple dedicated 22 EGYPT, CHALD^A, AND PERSIA to the god Bel, built at Babylonby Nebuchadnezzar about the year600 B.C. The most interesting…
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