Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 84
t. The remains of decorative art from ancient Chaldeaare not numerous. Abundant cylinders and inscribedbricks, ruins of temples and palaces, a few statues ofkings or deities carved in stone obtained from abroad,some pottery and a few objects in bronze, make up the 56 CHALDEA AND ASSYRIA bulk of the… … Fig. 68. Wall-Mosaic, Warka. longing to this em-pire. The plasticarts were appar-ently not in gen-eral highh devel-oped. The mostancient examplesof its architecturalornament knownare the walls ofWarka (Erech),formed wdth ver-tical reedings andpanels, and covered with a simple mosaic (Fig. 68)formed…
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