Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 136
e last threewere the Trinity. Other gods were Dagon, the fish-god ;Ishtar, their Venus ; Nabu, their Mercury and scribe of thegods ; Rammanu, the god of wind and thunder; and Negral,the god of war and hunting. The Assyrian and Babylonian people have a proverbialname for being a warlike and cruel… … .^•f >■•♦,£ CkvTeP^ eg.-tri- !C ■f^ig- I55-—Demons, from the Palace of Assuibanipal, Biiti:5h Museum. (P. & C.) The greatness of the Chaldeans in astronomy, inastrology, and as wise men generally, is too well known tobe repeated. Their skill in the arts of building, sculpture, Il6 HISTORIC…
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