d, volcanic or calcareous, stone was there precious and difficultto find. Sooner or later such objects as these would be draggedfrom their ancient sites and broken up to be used anew. Ifchance had not so willed that the Assyrian palaces were preservedfor us by entombment in their own ruins, we… … Fig. 34.—Cone of chalcedony. In the National Library at Paris. Actual size. only know it by reproductions on a very small scale, like those wemeet with on the cylinders, or by imitations vastly inferior to theoriginals, like those of the palaces at Persepolis. Instead of a human head on the body of…
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