ement is more graceful (see Plate VI.) ;the piece of cloth is folded double and carried obliquely round thebody so as to cover the left arm and shoulder and leave the right a man, to be seen naked. Conf. Plato, Republic, 452, c ; Thucydides, i. 6;Xenophon, Hellenica, iii. iv. 19. 1 Herodotus, i.… … Fig. 43.—Merodach- or Marduk-idin-akhi. From a basalt stele in the British Museum. Height24 inches. Drawn by Saint-Elme Gautier. Themes of Chald/EO-Assyrian Sculpture. 97 bare. The end is simply passed under the first fold, by which itis tightly held.1 There is no trace of a tunic. In Assyria…
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