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 300
face. It was flat atthe top and cut into three gradines. It was sculj)tured on the foursides, and there were in all twenty small bas-reliefs, and above,below, and between them was carved an inscription 210 lines inlength. The whole was in excellent preservation, very few cha-racters of the… … Obelisk. a prisoner is at his feet, and his vizir and eunuchs are introducingmen leading various animals, and carrying vases and other objects oftribute on their shoulders, or in their hands. The animals are, theelephant, the rhinoceros, the Bactrian or two-humped camel, thewild bull, the lion, a…
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