Famous sculpture as seen and described by great writers (1910)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York, Dodd · leaf 60
he ornaments and the na-ture of the relief, that these sculptures did not belong eitherto the same building, or to the same period as those pre-viously discovered. I recognized in them the style ofKhorsabad, and in the inscriptions particular forms in thecharacter, which were used in the… … in O QwO >—« >^ ASSYRIAN WINGED LION 35 walls. The sculptured slabs of which they were built werenot better preserved than others in this part of the mound.I could only distinguish the lower part of gigantic figures;some had been purposely defaced by a sharp instrument;others, from long…
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