enslaved, they lived upon the memory of their past, creatingneither new forms nor new ideas. They no longer attempted tomake their seals works of art ; they looked upon them asmere utensils. Cylinders are sometimes found in this region inscribed withAramaic characters, like the weights from… … Fig. 156.—Cylinder with Aramaic characters. Vienna Museum. neither Assyrian nor Chaldsean. He has been supposed to repre-sent a Scythian. The Scythian figured at Bisitun has the samepointed bonnet or cowl. Cylinders of this kind will long bea difficulty for the classifier.2 The cylindrical form was…
Hittites · Art · Jews
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