some compositions that no such explanation is admissible. Inmany instances they seem to represent people of the lowest class,peasants, labourers, and slaves (see Vol. I. Figs. 45, 151, 152,and Vol. II. Figs. 44 and 48). As the oldest sculptures ofChaldœa suffice to prove, the habit of wearing the… … J D < pq < PC ttJ f i o > W o o s 1—1 £ o Conventions of Ciiald.eo-Assyrian Sculpture. *37 which Assyria owed its power and fortune was created. Thebeard may then have become, as the moustache used to be withus, a sign of the military caste. We never find soldiers or theirofficers without…
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