A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria, Vol. 2 (of 2)Perrot, Georges
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A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Perrot, Georges
Art -- Assyria -- History; Art -- Iraq -- Babylonia; Assyria -- Antiquities; Babylonia -- Antiquities
18. Map of the site of Nineveh 45
19. Plan of the mound of Kouyundjik 46
20. Part plan of the palace of Sennacherib 47
21. Sennacherib at the head of his army 49
22. Town besieged by Sennacherib 54
23. Siege of a city 60
24. Plan of one of the ordinary gates at Khorsabad 66
25. Restoration in perspective of one of the ordinary
gates of Khorsabad 67
26. State gateway at Khorsabad 68
27. Longitudinal section through the archway of one of
the city gates, Khorsabad 69
28. Fortified wall; from the Balawat gates 73
29. Siege of a fort 74
30. An attack by escalade 75
31. Chariot for three combatants; from the palace of
Assurbanipal 76
32. The demon of the south-west wind 81
33. Head of a winged bull of Assurbanipal 83
34. Cone of chalcedony 85
35. Izdubar and Lion 86
36. Winged genius 87
37. Carrying the gods; from the palace of Sennacherib 90
38. Istar and the sacrificing priest 90
39. Istar between two personages 90
40. Lapis-lazuli cylinder 91
41. 42. Fragments of an ivory statuette 92
43. Merodach- or Marduk-idin-akhi 95
44. Captives on the march; from the palace of Sennacherib 97
45. Sargon before the sacred tree 99
46. Assyrian standard 102
47. Sennacherib before Lachish 105
48. Procession of captives 107
49. One face of the obelisk of Shalmaneser II. 111
50. Statuette of a priest 114
51. Dagon 114
52. Head of a lioness 115
53. Canephoros 117
54. Man driving goats and sheep; from the Balawat gates 118
55. Lion carved in wood 119
56. Ivory seal 119
57. Ivory tablet in the British Museum 120
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