Manual of oriental antiquities : including the architecture, sculpture, and industrial arts of Chaldæa, Assyria, Persia, Syria, Judæa, Phœnicia, and Carthage (1906)
Babelon, Ernest, 1854-1924 · London : H. Grevel · leaf 156
INDUSTRIAL ARTS. 133 side (fig. 104) is occupied by a monster with four wings and eagle’s claws, looking over the top of the plaque ; on the other side (fig. 105) the monster’s head is seen, and under it scenes arranged in four rows: first the symbolical figures of the stars, then a procession of… … Fig. 106,—Standard in a Fig. 107.—Foot of a bas-relief from Khorsabad piece of furniture. (Louvre). De Vogiiécollection, heads of various animals: these are the heavenly genii called Igigis. Below this we witness a funeral scene: two creatures with human bodies combined with the head and body of a…
Art, Asian · Oriental antiquities
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