Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 148
inches in thickness;of a dark red colour to light yellow. Nearly all ofthem have an inscription with the name of the king, &c.(Fig. 169). CHALDEAN AND ASSYRIAN ART. 127 The brick from Erech, or ancient Warka, gives a goodidea of one of the oldest forms of Chaldean writing known(Fig. 170). It… … Fig. 16 —Fragment of Border of Fig. 166 ; from a Thresbold of Khorsabad. (P. & C.) ideographic writing before it underwent the changeinto the ainciformy or wedge-shaped writing of theAssyrians. Some of the bricks were made wedge-shaped, for use inthe building of arches and vaults. The common…
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