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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 286

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pper parts of two male figures support a brokenentablature beneath which the name of some divinity is cut.^ The chief interest of this fragment lies in the further evidence Itaffords of a close connection between the arts of Chaldsea and thoseof Babylon. There is nothing either in the costume or… … Fig. 113.— Fragment from Babylon. British Museum. Height II inches, width 9 inches. latter object is to be found on the rocks of Bavian and as farnorth as the sculptures of Cappadocia. A study of those reliefs in which nothing but purely ornamentalmotives are treated, leads us to exactly the same…

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