instance of this may be found in a cylinder found by M. deSarzec at Tello, on which winged quadrupeds seizing and devour-ing gazelles are portrayed (Fig. 149). Too many figures arebrought together in the narrow space and the result is confusion.Y\ e are not, however, disposed to accept this… … FlG. 148.—Chaldsean cylinder. Black marble. French National Library. their execution, may be safely placed among the most ancientproducts of art.2 One of the earliest types invented by the imaginations of thesepeople was that of the strange and chaotic beings who, accordingto the traditions…
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