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 141
t, detained the piece and restored it to its legitimateowners. VOL. II. R 122 A History of Art in ChaldtEa and Assyria. especially ia the palace of Assurbanipal. it would seem thatsuch things were imported from abroad when something betterthan the ivory knobs and handles made in the country… … Fig. 59.—Ivory tablet in the British Museum. Actual size. Drawn by Saint-Elme Gaulicr. of their origin as the tablet with the royal oval, we should havedone so, we should have reserved both the carved ivories andthe engraved cups of metal until we reached those pages of ourhistory in which the arts…
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