Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, Or Devil-worshippers; and an Inquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians, Volume 2G. P. Putnam, 1851 |
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... Character -Bas - reliefs collected together - Description of the Sculptures - Further Dis- coveries in the Southwest Edifice - Crouching Sphinxes - Sculptures - A Descrip- tion of the Bas - reliefs - Small Figures in unbaked Clay - A ...
... Character -Bas - reliefs collected together - Description of the Sculptures - Further Dis- coveries in the Southwest Edifice - Crouching Sphinxes - Sculptures - A Descrip- tion of the Bas - reliefs - Small Figures in unbaked Clay - A ...
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... character ; although there are certain peculi- arities in the execution , and mode of treatment , that would seem to mark the work of a foreign , perhaps an Assyrian , art- ist . The same peculiarities - the same anomalies - charac ...
... character ; although there are certain peculi- arities in the execution , and mode of treatment , that would seem to mark the work of a foreign , perhaps an Assyrian , art- ist . The same peculiarities - the same anomalies - charac ...
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... characters ) had been cut . They may have been carved to celebrate the reopening , or the restoration , of the building . In all the chambers to the south of the great hall Y , were found copper vessels of peculiar shape ; but they fell ...
... characters ) had been cut . They may have been carved to celebrate the reopening , or the restoration , of the building . In all the chambers to the south of the great hall Y , were found copper vessels of peculiar shape ; but they fell ...
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... characters . It is remarkable , that on the back of these bricks , or on one of the sides not colored , are rude de- signs , in black paint or ink , of men and animals , and marks having the appearance of numbers . They appear to have ...
... characters . It is remarkable , that on the back of these bricks , or on one of the sides not colored , are rude de- signs , in black paint or ink , of men and animals , and marks having the appearance of numbers . They appear to have ...
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... character of the sculpture , and the treatment of the subjects ; in the costumes of the figures , in the caparisons of the horses , and in the form of the chariots . The distinction was so great , that the short period elapsing be ...
... character of the sculpture , and the treatment of the subjects ; in the costumes of the figures , in the caparisons of the horses , and in the form of the chariots . The distinction was so great , that the short period elapsing be ...
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