ze gates to which we have already more than once alluded,in the mound of Balawat.1 Shalmaneser II., who built thepalace to which these gates belonged, caused his victorious cam-paigns and his sacrifices to the gods to be represented upon them.We have already reproduced many of these curious reliefs… … Fig. 54.—Man driving goats and sheep. From the Balawat gates. British Museum.Drawn by Saint-Flme Gautier. bronze as he did with alabaster ; in both his handling was firmand rapid and his modelling at once broad and strongly felt.2 This peculiar handling, at once free and a little hard, is to…
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