place. To give but one example of the evidence which mightlead to at least plausible conclusions, we might see pure Assyrianworkmanship in the cup figured below (Fig. 218),2 where moun-tains, trees, and animals stand up in slight relief, both hammerand burin having been used to produce the desired… … Fig. 218.—Bronze cup. British Museum. coast. In the inscribed records of their great hunts, the kings ofAssyria often mention the bear.3 Nothing that can be comparedto these wooded hills peopled by wild beasts is to be found on thecups from Cyprus or Italy. I may say the same of another cup onwhich…
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