syria. It bears witness to a sculpturesque instinct that doesnot reappear until we arrive at the art of the Greeks and themagnificent development of draperies and their significance whichwe then encounter. 1 The figures we have been describing seem to us to representThe Archaic age of Chalu^ean… … Fig. 99.—Female statuette. Alabaster. Height about 8 inches. seem to want length even when compared to the thicksetforms in the Nimroud bas-reliefs. There is some evidence thatthe neck was very short and thick and the head large for thebody, as we see it indeed in the statuette of a woman…
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