yby a single text. This tablet may have been carved, then, eitherin Egypt, or in Phoenicia after an Egyptian model. In any case,it seems clear to us that it is not the work of an Assyrian orChaldsean. Other objects in the same material do not, like this,bear an irrefutable mark of their origin, but… … FiG. 58.—Ivory fragment in the British Museum. Actual size. Drawn by Saint-Elme Gautier. dress, the peculiar rendering of the wing-feathers, are none ofthem Chaldaean, but we often find them in Phoenicia and Cyprus.We may say the same of the fine piece in which two fantasticanimals standing upon a…
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