. m against attitude of hurling the monster, who Fish-God, at Entrance to small Temple (Nimroud.) turned furiously towards him. This group appears to represent the bad spirit driven out by a good deity; a fit subject for the entrance to a temple, dedicated to the god of w^ar. The singular com- bination of forms by which the Assyrian sculptor por- 13

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