surpassed by any other product of Mesopotamian art. There is notrace of the heaviness to which we alluded in our section on jewelry. VOL. II. 3 B J/ A History of Art in Ciiald.ea and Assyria. The impression made by these compositions as a whole isintensified when we examine their separate details.… … mi* Fig. 256.—Detail of embroidery ; from Layard. of the winged genii at Nimroud (Fig. 255). The sacred treesurrounded by a square frame of rosettes and wavy lines occupiesthe centre, the palmette throws out its wide fronds at one end.In another example we find a human-headed lion, mitred and…
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