ve described howit was employed upon ceilings and doors;1 we have just seenhow it helped to ornament articles of furniture ; it also suppliedthe material for many useful and ornamental objects, such assceptres, boxes, cups, knife-handles, etc. (Fig. 202). Did theAssyrians understand how to give… … Fig. 202.—Dagger hilt. Ivory. Actual size. Louvre. Renaissance ivories ; others are white, grey, brown or evenquite black. These tints, as I myself ascertained, are not by the uraeus between two feathers, we find an inscription which appears to bePhcenician. It has been read as the name of a king…
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