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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 166

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e of more or less flattened domes. We must here call attention to the importance of a bas-reliefbelonging to the curious series of carved pictures in which The General Principles of Form. 145 Sennacherib caused the erection of his palace at Nineveh to becommemorated. Look well at this group of… … Fig. 43.—View of a group of buiUliiigs ; KouviincljiU ; from Layard. most important, have, some hemispherical cupolas, and some talldomes approaching cones in shape. These same forms are stillin use over all that country, not only for public buildings likebaths and mosques, but even here and there…

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