1 We know of nothing among the spoils of Assyria that can becompared to those wooden spoons that the Egyptian workmancarved with so light a hand ;1 but two objects found at Kouyundjikprove that the Assyrians knew how to give forms elegant andgraceful enough, though less original, to objects of the… … s lïLtde . ç Fig. 228.—Comb. Actual size. Louvre. So far we have treated Assyrian metal-work of the ornamentalkind only as it is seen in bronze. Hardly any objects of gold orsilver have, in fact, been discovered in Mesopotamia. And yet itis impossible that those two metals can have been very rare…
Hittites · Art · Jews
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