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 303
a wine-skin on his shoulders; two figures facing differentways, and carrying in their right hands a flower resembling thepoppy; three fragments containing horses heads, and eleven de-tached heads, five of them bearded, the rest those of eunuchs. Allthese were obtained for the Museum by Mr. Hector,… … Horseman from Khorsabad, 286 ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. shoulders, and right arm of a Man leading Two Horses, the headsand necks of which alone have been preserved. The heads of thehorses have a very rich ornament, not unlike that which we are inthe habit of placing upon our funeral horses. This…
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