t of the sculptor in quite a different wayfrom a gypseous stone like alabaster. Add to this that the propor-tions are quite unlike those of the Ninevite reliefs. This Marduk-idin-akhi is a work of the ancient school, which made its figures farshorter than those of such Assyrian reliefs as have come… … Fig. 6j.—Fragment of a Chalctaean bas-relief. Louvre. Limestone. Height 3f inches. at this stele without bias on one side or the other, will, we think,acknowledge that the type it presents is the same as the figuresat Nimroud, Khorsabad, and Kouyundjik. It is, moreover,identical with that we see in…
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