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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 86

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r chambers.^ It would be curious to find the arrangementrepeated here, but we cannot certainly say that it was so. Onthe other hand the situation of the doors by which the entranceinto the city was barred is very clearly marked. At the pointwhere the passage C opens into the transept D the sockets… … Fig. 25.—Restoration in perspective of one of the ordinary gates of Ivhorsabad ; from Place. which have to be mounted before the court A can be reachedfrom the outside ; in the ordinary gateways a gentle inclination ofthe whole pavement of the court makes such steps unnecessary.A second difterence…

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