onvention, whose strangeness is diminished when we remember Gems. 267 rough and summary in its execution, the figures are believed to bethose of women, on account of the way in which the hair isarranged. It is clubbed with ribbons at the back of the neck.The artist seems also to have tried to… … Fig. 144.—Chaldaean cylinder. Basalt. Louvre. Drawn by Wallet the same kind, but more complex and, for us, more obscure (Fig.145). A seated figure, apparently female from the long hair%flowing over the shoulders, sits upon a low stool and holds a childupon her knees. In front of the group thus…
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