t all. With few exceptions the belief in asuperior and divine world makes itself felt in Assyrian art only inthose effigies of gods and demons we have already described.And such images have their places rigidly fixed by tradition ; theystand at the palace gates, but are scarcely ever found within… … Fig. 46.—Assyrian standard ; from JLajard. the other national gods afforded their worshippers ; now it is aneagle floating over the kings chariot ;l now the god himself, sur-rounded by a winged circle, draws his bow and launches hisformidable shafts against the enemies of his people.2 He isthus…
Hittites · Art · Jews
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