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 110
is a manin the prime of life ; his air and costume must have been takenfrom those of the king. May we not look upon him as the firstsketch for the Greek Zeus, the Zeus of Homer and Phidias ? This type is never disfigured by any of those attempts, ofwhich the Chaldeeans were so fond, to add to the… … Fig. 40.—Lapis-lazuli cylinder. In the French National Library. personage with two faces, like the Roman Janus. But this is notthe seated god. It is not the great deity before whom the otheractors in the scene stand erect, it is one of the secondary per-sonages, one of the inferior divinities who…
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