VOL. II. On the Representations of Animals. 16 strongly upon fidelity to fact as in the historical bas-reliefs, butwhether they made use of his figure as a whole or confined them-selves to the head or paws, they always preserved the truecharacter and originality of the forms. This may be clearly… … Fig. 8i.—Niche decorated with two lions. Height 6^ inches. British Museum.Drawn by Saint-Elme Gautier. may have been its use. It is a kind of shallow niche cut froma fossiliferous rock.1 It is hardly deep enough to have shelteredan idol or statuette of any kind. But whatever it may have been 1 The…
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