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some compositions that no such explanation is admissible. Inmany instances they seem to represent people of the lowest class,peasants, labourers, and slaves (see Vol. I. Figs. 45, 151, 152,and Vol. II. Figs. 44 and 48). As the oldest sculptures ofChaldsea suffice to prove, the habit of wearing the… … li 5 > > CoxvEXTioxs OF Chald.eo-Assvrian Sculpture. 137 which Assyria owed its power and fortune was created. Thebeard may then have become, as the moustache used to be withus, a sien of the mihtarv caste. We never find soldiers or theirofficers without it ; ^ but their hair and beards are…
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