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 170
t of the sculptor in quite a different wayfrom a gypseous stone like alabaster. Add to this that the propor-tions are quite unlike those of the Ninevite reliefs. This Marduk-idin-akhi is a work of the ancient school, which made its figures farshorter than those of such Assyrian reliefs as have come… … Fig. 67.—Fr.igment of a Chald.tan bis-iLlicf. Louvre. Limestone. Height 3f iiKhes, at this Stele without bias on one side or the other, will, we think,acknowledge that the type it presents is the same as the fioruresat Nimroud, Khorsabad, and Kouyundjik. It is, moreover,identical with that we see…
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