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Handbook to the antiquities in the British Museum : being a description of the remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan art preserved there, with numerous illustrations (1851)

Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885 · London : Murray · leaf 289

An illustration from Handbook to the antiquities in the British Museum : being a description of the remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan art preserved there, with numerous illustrations, 1851, leaf 289
ion, two Kings appear, attended each bya winged figure, and standing opposite to each other with this honey-suckle plant between them, over which is the object commonly calleda Feroher, or attend-ant spirit, which fre-quently is found onthese marbles over ornear the King, as in thelater works at… … A Feroher. 272 ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. winged figures, in each case facing each other, with the Sacred tree,as on the large slab, between them : the third slab has a representa-tion of two of the so-called Nisrochs standing in the same ])Ositionwith regard to the Sacred tree. Mr. Layard considers…

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