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 164
d soldiers or theirofficers without it ; ^ but their hair and beards are shorter thanthose of the king and his ministers (Fig. 66) ; they do not fallupon the chest and shoulders in several rows of curls carefullyarranged.- In the reliefs the amplitude and length of the beardare always a sign of the… … Fig. 66.—Assyri.-in soldier; from the Louvre. Height of slab 2 feet. and eyes there was hardly anything left by which one individualcould be distinguished from another. Now the Assyrian race 1 An almost unique exception to this rule occurs in those bas-reliefs in theBritish Museum which represent…
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