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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 292

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e base ofthe slab, near the building, are wavy lines indicating water, andwater-plants growing out of it. The ninth and tenth are also attackson buildings. On the former the scene is admirably told. A castel-lated building is represented with warriors on the walls without; anda moveable… … Batterinsr-ram. to the attack. On the latter, two warriors are kneeling and dis-charging their arrows upwards, apparently at some building whichwas probably on the next slab; behind them is a chariot and twowarriors on foot, and an eagle or vulture devouring a dead body onthe distant plain. The…

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