History of ancient pottery, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman (1873)
Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · London, J. Murray · leaf 115
old Assyrian. Painting is rarely seen on the uuglazed vases. Some frag- ments from Karamles and other localities had pale yellow backgrounds with hori- zontal or vertical lines of a dark brown colour. On some specimens a few cha- No. 82.— Stamp on a vase, appa- racters resembling tlie Phoenician… … god of the waters. They are No. SS.— Xerra-cotta figures of Assyrian Venus. coloured with a cretaceous coat- ing, and resemble in all respects the Greek pottery. They are probably of the age of the Seleucidae, though some may be referred unhesitatingly to a period prior to the fall of Nineveh. In…
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