sof the two figures. As time went on they learnt to use their tools with morefreedom and more varied skill. We shall not attempt to followM. Soldi in tracing the art through all its successive stages.1As an example of the skill to which the Mesopotamian artisthad attained towards the seventh… … Fig. 141.—Assyrian cylinder. 13ritLh Museum. Diawn by Wallet. Sargonid period. A winged personage, with his arms extended,stands between two fantastic winged quadrupeds and grasps eachby a fore-paw. The chief actor in the scene is very like the wingedgenius whom we encounter so often on the walls…
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