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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 381

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Fig. 164.—Tomb at Mugheir ; from Taylor, numerous examples of a still more elementary form of burialwere discovered. The skeletons of children were found betweentwo hollow plates, and full grown bodies in a kind of double vase ^)yi: … Fig. 165.—Tomb at Mugheir ; from Taylor. into which they could only have been thrust with some difficultyand that after being doubled up. Still more often coffins wereof the form shown in our Figf. 166. The diameter of thesecylindrical jars was about two feet. The joint between them The Ciiald/ean…

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