rst inall the scenes in which the king, his ministers, his officers orhis soldiers appear. It is also used for the gods (Vol. I. Figs.13 and 15) and the winged bulls, whose heads, perhaps, likethe Egyptian sphinxes, were supposed to be reproductions ofthe royal features. The beardless variety… … Fig. 65.—-Head of a eunuch ; from Layard. cheeks and necks (Fig. 65) has been thought to confirm thisidea. But we should be mistaken if we recognized these miser-able beings in all the beardless figures. The latter are so numerousin some compositions that no such explanation is admissible. Inmany…
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