Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited; New York, A. C. Armstrong and Son · leaf 133
is almost completelyabsent from the sculpture of Assyria. By thus limiting its scope, sculpture condemned itself to muchrepetition and to a uniformity not far removed from sameness ; butits very silences are eloquent upon the inhuman originality of asystem to which Assyria owed both the splendour… … Fig. 31.—Convoy of prisoners. Kouyundjik. From Lay.ird. such wide gap.s, once broken, nothing remained of the true Assyriabut the ignorant masses of a second-class state to whom a changeof masters had little meaning, and a few vast buildings doomedsoon to disappear under their own ruins. When we…
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