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 218
Assyria. It bears witness to a sculpturesque instinct that doesnot reappear until we arrive at the art of the Greeks and themagnificent development of draperies and their significance whichwe then encounter. The figures we have been describing seem to us to representThe Archaic age of Chald.ean… … Fig. 99.—Female statuette. Alabaster. Height about 8 inches. seem to want length even when compared to the thick.setforms in the Nimroud bas-reliefs. There is some evidence thatthe neck was very short and thick and the head large for thebody, as we see it indeed in the statuette of a woman…
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