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 96
ed below (Figs. 13 and 14),^in which a god appears bearing an axe in his right hand, and, inhis left, a kind of faggot, whose significance might have escapedus but for the light thrown upon it by classic sculpture. Thelatter no doubt borrowed a well-known form from the east, andthe object in… … Fig. 13.—Gjds carried in procession ; from Layards M.mnments of Ninevi-h, first serie-;, pi. 65. powers of nature of which he felt himself the sport, between a vastnumber of agents, between crowds of genii upon whose mercies hethought himself dependent, and whom he did his best to propitiateby…
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