Styles of ornament, exhibited in designs, and arranged in historical order, with descriptive text. A handbook for architects, designers, painters, sculptors, wood-carvers, chasers, modellers, cabinet-makers and artistic locksmiths as well as also for technical schools, libraries and private study (1910)
Speltz, Alexander, O'Conor, David · New York : E. Weyhe · leaf 46
000 B. C, HebrewArt was in its highest glory, and remained so until the destruction of Jerusalemby Nebuchadnezar in the year 586 B. C. The principal buildings of King Solo-mons palace, and of the Temple, were however the work of Phoenician artistsand artisans. Numerous tombs cut into rocks at this… … 36 PHOENICIAN-HEBRAIC ORNAMENT. and in Cappadocia lived a people called the Hittites who were neither of Aryanor Hebrew stock. They were settled here since the year 1500 B. C, and, from1130 B. C. were continuously attacked by the Assyrians, being finally conqueredand destroyed by Sargon in the 8*^…
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