History of art in primitive Greece; Mycenian art from the French of Georges Perrot ... and Charles Chipiez. Illustrated with five hundred and forty-four engravings in the text, and twenty coloured plates (1894)
Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Gonino, I · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited · leaf 144
e exists in Anatolia ; to find it one must travel to the Kuen-Lun Mountains, i.c, to the very heart of Asia. In their opinion this mineral comes from Khotan, and must have found its way to Anterior Asia, either wrought or in its native state, by successive barters across the Iran plateau or along… … Eig. 6. — Xephrite axe. Actual size. Eig. 7. — Red jasper axe. Length 15 cent. less qualities of the weapon, which in power and duration easily surpassed all others, much as a fine steel blade is superior to one of soft iron. Jade, it should be remembered, is the most resisting stone in existence,…
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