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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 84

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he same paper a vast number of facts are brought togetherwhich show how widely spread this worship was in Syria and Arabia, and with whatpersistence it maintained itself, at least until the preaching of Islamism. It would Till-; Chai.d.kan Religiox. oratitude ever led to the worship of animals, the… … Fig. 8.—Eagle-headed divinity, from Xiniroud. Ljuvre. ^Vlabaster. lleiglit forty inches.Drawn by .Saint-Elme Gautier. their sacred statues. This we know both from the texts and thefigured monuments. But it was not only in the budding art of aprimitive population that such combinations were…

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