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 45
, as the exclusive constituents of its character.If we examine the tablets recovered by Mr. Loftus from the ruinsof Warka, the ancient Erech (Fig. i), or the inscriptions upon thediorite statues found at Tello by M. de Sarzec (Fig. 2), we shallfind that in the distant period from which those… … Fig. I.—Brick from Erech. exclusion of those curves of which nature is so fond. Thisexclusion is complete, all the lines are straight, and cut one anotherat various angles. The horror of a curve is pushed so far thateven the sun, which is represented by a circle in Egyptian andother ideographic…
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