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A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria (1884)

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 216

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nalscale, for the express purpose of calling attention to their singular head-dress{Monuments, series ii. plate 16). 2 Here M. Heuzey anwers M. Menant, who thought he could discover in thesetwo heads that the sculptors models had not been Semites, but belonged to theprimitive race, of Turanians, no… … Fig. 98.—The large statue from J ello. Height 5 feet 3 inches, huuvre.Drawn by Saint-Elme Gaiitier. VOL. II 1; 1; Chald.^an Sculpture. 187 found either in Egyptian sculpture or in the later works ofAssyria. It bears witness to a sculpturesque instinct that doesnot reappear until we arrive at the…

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