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 102
figures to which we cannot be indifferent,and their effect is increased by the wings that lie along their backsand furnish so happily the upper part of the huge alabaster slabs,above which nothing rises but the horned tiara. Finally, the facewith its strongly marked features, with its frame of… … 1-u;. 33.—Head of a winged bull of Assurbanipal. British Museum. Height 38 inches.Drawn by Saint-Elme Gaiitier. Themes of Chald.^o-Assyrian Sculpture. 85 with the general idea that led the Chaldjeans to create thesemysterious but kindly beings, and to endow them with theirmighty frames of stone.*…
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