d soldiers or theirofficers without it ; 1 but their hair and beards are shorter thanthose of the king and his ministers (Fig. 66) ; they do not fallupon the chest and shoulders in several rows of curls carefullyarranged.2 In the reliefs the amplitude and length of the beardare always a sign of the… … Fig. 66.—Assyrian soldier; from the Louvre. Height of slab 2 feet. and eyes there was hardly anything left by which one individualcould be distinguished from another. Now the Assyrian race 1 An almost unique exception to this rule occurs in those bas-reliefs in theBritish Museum which represent the…
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