consequencesof victory. One picture shows the insults inflicted upon thelifeless bodies of the hated enemy ; two more celebrate thecare taken by the victors of their dead and the honours renderedto their memory ; finally the march of the successful army isportrayed. We have here, then, a well… … Fig. 95.—Fragment of a stele ; from Tello. About one-third of the original size. Louvre.Drawn by Saint-El me Gautier. chisel, what we may call the primitive art of Chaldaea, is preservedfor us in the fragments of this great stele.1 A second and still more curious group of monuments is com-posed of…
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