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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 342

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sses a series of small figures found at Nimroudbut in a comj^aratively modern building, the palace of Esarhaddon.They have each two pairs of wings, one pair raised, the otherdepressed. They had been strewn in the sand under the thresholdof one of the doors. It was at Khorsabad, however, that the… … Fig. 149.—Terra-cotta cone. Height 6 inches. Louvre. Khorsabad a stone case in which were five inscriptions on fivedifferent materials, gold, silver, antimony, copper and lead. Of thesefive tablets he brought away four. The leaden one was too heavyto be carried off at once, and it was despatched to…

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