e also bulls with human heads, dogswith four bodies and fishes tails, and other quadrupeds in whichvarious animal forms were blended, fishes, reptiles, serpents, andall kinds of monsters with the greatest variety in their forms,monsters whose images we see in the paintings of the temple ofBel at… … Fig. 149.—Chaldœan cylinder of veined agate. Louvre. Before quitting these remains from the earliest school of gemengraving, we must draw attention for a moment to the way inwhich it treats costume. In most cases the folds of the stuff areimitated by very fine parallel strokes. Sometimes, as, for…
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