Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 161
the Arabs had imitated it, withoutdoubt from Sassanian prototypes, and employed it in preferenceto all other forms. The sculpture of the Sassanians is more interesting, though per-haps not more artistic, than their architecture. The memorialsof the former art are numerous, for traditions inherited… … Fig. 69.—Sassanian Capital, from Ispahan. SCULPTURE. 125 sessed certain heroic and knightly traits which remind us of thechivalry of the Middle Ages. Among the Sassanians these charac-teristics seem to have been increased by the long subjugationof their country during the Alexandrian epoch, and by…
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