o( the same type is to be found in a bas-relief of Assurbanipal ;it is, however, simplified, and it looks, on the whole, more pro-bable (Fig. 88). The wings have disappeared ; there are but twonatures to be joined, and the junction seems to be made withouteffort ; the lion furnishes strength and… … Fig. 87.—Fantastic animal. National Library, Paris. Height 5 J inches.Drawn by Saint-Elme Gautier. round the dome-like tiara, and also by the place he occupiesin the inferior compartment of a relief on which, at the top,appear those lion-headed genii we have already figured (Vol. I,Fig. 6). In this…
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