. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . ?s^^.^-«. **^^- GREAT ASSYKIAN STELE AT BAVTAIT. Drawn by Boudier, from Layard. SCENES OP FIGHTING, HUNTING, AND BUILDING 71 adequate supply of workers, and when Sargon ascendedthe throne, the royal guild of sculptors had been thoroughlyreconstituted; the inefficient workmen on whom Tiglath-pileser and Shalmaneser had been obliged to rely hadbeen eliminated in course of time, and many of thesculptures which adorned the palace at Khorsabad displaya purity of design and boldness of execution comparableto that of the best Egyptian art. T
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . ?s^^.^-«. **^^- GREAT ASSYKIAN STELE AT BAVTAIT. Drawn by Boudier, from Layard. SCENES OP FIGHTING, HUNTING, AND BUILDING 71 adequate supply of workers, and when Sargon ascendedthe throne, the royal guild of sculptors had been thoroughlyreconstituted; the inefficient workmen on whom Tiglath-pileser and Shalmaneser had been obliged to rely hadbeen eliminated in course of time, and many of thesculptures which adorned the palace at Khorsabad displaya purity of design and boldness of execution comparableto that of the best Egyptian art. The composition stillshows traces of Chaldsean stiffness, and the exaggerateddrawing of the muscles produces an occasionally unpleas-ing heaviness of outline, but none the less the work asa whole constitutes one of the richest and most ingeniousschemes of decoration ever devised, which, while its colour-ing was still perfect, must have equalled in splendour thegreat triumphal battle-scenes at Ibsambul or Medinet-Habu. Sennacherib found ready to his hand
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