the south.Every traveller in those regions notices that there are far morecylinders to be purchased in the bazaars of Bagdad and Bassorahthan in those of Mossoul.1 The glyptic art of Assyria was anexotic, like her sculpture and her architecture. In attempting to define the characteristics of the… … FlG. 150.—Archaic Assyrian cylinder. In the Uiiizi, Florence. Thus we may learn from a signet that once belonged to thegovernor of Calah what the execution of the artists employedby the princes of Elassar and Nimroud was like (Fig. 150). Weneed not hesitate to assign this cylinder to the first…
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