. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . THE AHUEA-MAZDA OF THE BAS-EELIEFS OF PEESEPOLIS.^ disconnecting him from the material universe. He re-mained under ordinary circumstances invisible to mortaleyes, and he could conceal his identity even from thehighest gods, but he occasionally manifested himself inhuman form. He borrowed in such case from Assyria thesymbol of Assur, and the sculptors depict him with theupper part of his body rising above that winged diskwhich is carved in a hovering attitude on the pediments ofAssyrian monuments or stelae. In later days he was 1 Draw
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . THE AHUEA-MAZDA OF THE BAS-EELIEFS OF PEESEPOLIS.^ disconnecting him from the material universe. He re-mained under ordinary circumstances invisible to mortaleyes, and he could conceal his identity even from thehighest gods, but he occasionally manifested himself inhuman form. He borrowed in such case from Assyria thesymbol of Assur, and the sculptors depict him with theupper part of his body rising above that winged diskwhich is carved in a hovering attitude on the pediments ofAssyrian monuments or stelae. In later days he was 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from Flandin and HYPORSTYLE OF HALL OF XERXES: DETAIL OF ENTABLATURE. w^
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