History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1906)
Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 53
wall had been built a stone wall plastered with lime. Onthis were painted rosettes, lions, gods, and other subjects. My travelling com-panion, Monsieur Thomas, saw and copied them, and has thus preserved theirrecord ; for when I came to Nineveh a year later, I saw the wall indeed still inits place,… … Fig. 6. Of Assyrian painted tiles there have been preserved fragments of somewhatmore importance. They too come chiefly from the ruins of Nimrud. Unfoitunately, however, no single one of such tiles has been recovered quite unbroken,still less has it been possible to put together the whole of any…
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