o show its pose. These statues, if they deserve such a name, show the work ofthe Assyrians at its feeblest ; the plastic genius of the peoplemust not be judged from them, but from the genre in which theywere most at home, from the long lines of figures that stand outin various salience from the… … Fig. 61.—Statue of Shalmaneser II. Height 58 inches. British Museum. Let us begin with the bas-relief. It is with sculpturesexecuted on this principle that the walls of temples and palaceswere covered, as if with a stone tapestry. The Assyrian process isidentical in principle with that afterwards…
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