Needlework as art . r long captivity, and how soon theyreverted to their ancient Chaldean proclivities, after re-turning to their wandering life of the tent. On the bronze gates from the mound of Balawat, nearNimroud, set up by Shalmaneser to celebrate his conquestof Tyre and Sidon,4 we find a portable tabernacle, evi-dently meant to accompany the army on a march. It isnot much larger than a four-post bed, with transversepoles for drawing the curtains, all fringed with bells andfruit. This is an illustration of the motive for the Taber-nacle of the forty years wandering in the desert. (Fig. 2.
Needlework as art . r long captivity, and how soon theyreverted to their ancient Chaldean proclivities, after re-turning to their wandering life of the tent. On the bronze gates from the mound of Balawat, nearNimroud, set up by Shalmaneser to celebrate his conquestof Tyre and Sidon,4 we find a portable tabernacle, evi-dently meant to accompany the army on a march. It isnot much larger than a four-post bed, with transversepoles for drawing the curtains, all fringed with bells andfruit. This is an illustration of the motive for the Taber-nacle of the forty years wandering in the desert. (Fig. 2.) 1 See also M. E. Harkness and Stuart Poole, Assyrian Life andHistory. p. 66. 2 The visions of Ezekiel and St. John remind us of the compositefigures and animals in Ninevite sculptures, and the prophetic poetryhelps us to interpret their symbolism. 3 G. Smiths Ancient History of the Monuments, Babylonia, p. by Sayce. 4 In the British Museum. See Bronze Ornaments of Palace Gates,Balawat, pi. e 5. Style. 25. Fig. on gates of Balawat, time of Shalmaneser II. (British Museum). Egyptian textile art is, perhaps, that of which wehave the most early specimens. These are to be seenat Boulac, at Vienna, Turin, and the British Hieroglyphic, the Archaic, and the Graeco-Egyptian are all unmistakably the consecutive outcomeof the national original style, which had totally dis-appeared in the beginning of our era. Few of theembroideries are more than two thousand five hundredyears old. But the great piece of patchwork in leather, the funeral tent of an Egyptian queen, as it coveredthe remains of a contemporary of Solomon,2 absolutely 1 See Aubervilles Ornement des Tissus, pi. 1. 2 The Egyptian queen in question was mother-in-law to Shishak,whose daughter married Solomon. After his son-in-laws death, Shishakplundered the Kings House, and carried to Egypt the golden shields E 26 Needlework as Art. exhibits the proficiency of the designer and the needle-work o
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