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A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria (1884)

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 152

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early morning when the base of the mound is lost in circlingvapours and its summit alone stands up into the clear sky aboveand receives the first rays of the sun ; and in the evening, when thewhole mass rises in solid shadow against the red and gold of thewestern skv. At these times it is easy to… … Fir,. 36.—Haman, in Lower Ch.ildiea. From Loftus. want of his land was the picturesque variety given by accidents ofthe ground to its nearest neighbours, a want he endeavoured toconceal by substituting these pyramidal temples, these lofty pago-das, as we are tempted to call them, for the gentle…

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