Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 90
coiledspirals and the muscles exaggerated (Plate IV, 7).The winged lion and winged bull, as well as wingedhuman figures representing deities, appear frequently 62 CHALDEA AND ASSYRIA in enameled earthenware tiles. The griffin (Fig. 73),a monster with a lions or panthers body and the headand wings… … !/m^mf^„r;~s^ nilmrnuiiitiT-w imafr Fig. 73. Griffix or Moxster, from a Relief. years. In naturalistic pictures the forms and actionof animals were rendered often with surprising realism;but these belong in the field of pictorial relief sculpturerather than of ornament. Colors and Technic. The…
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