The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . ise a new one more adapted to theland of their adoption. Next to the architecture of the Assyrians, their mimetic artseems to deserve attention. Though the representations in theworks of Layard and Botta, combined with the presence of somany specunens in the great national museums of London andParis, have produced a general familiarity with the subject,still, as a connected view of it in its several stage
The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . ise a new one more adapted to theland of their adoption. Next to the architecture of the Assyrians, their mimetic artseems to deserve attention. Though the representations in theworks of Layard and Botta, combined with the presence of somany specunens in the great national museums of London andParis, have produced a general familiarity with the subject,still, as a connected view of it in its several stages and branchesis up to the present time a desideratum in our literature, itmay not be superfluous here to attempt a brief account of thedifferent classes into which their productions in this kind ofart fall, and the different eras and styles under which theynaturally range themselves. Assyrian mimetic art consists of statues, bas-reliefs, metal-castings, carvings in ivory, statuettes in clay, enamellings onbrick, and intaglios on stones and gems. Assyrian statues are comparatively rare, and, when theyoccur, are among the least satisfactory of this peoples produc- Vol 1. Plate LIX. Archwl Drain, Korth-West Palace, Niinrud (afUr Layard).Figr 2.
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