A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . Fig. 37 Fig. 39. EXAMPLES OP ARCHAIC SCULPTURB FROM ASHUR AND TELLO, EXHIBITING THESAME CONVENTION IN THE TREATMENT OP WOOLLEN GARMENTS. The seated statuette (Fig, 37) is from Ashur, and the treatment of the garmentis precisely similar to that in early Tello work (Figs. 88 and 39).[After , No. 54, p. 18, and Dec, pi. 2 [bis), No. 1, and pi. 21 (ter), No. 3.] Assyria to power. It may well have included theNorth-Mesopotamian region known afterwards as theland of Mitanni, whose rulers are found in temporary
A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . Fig. 37 Fig. 39. EXAMPLES OP ARCHAIC SCULPTURB FROM ASHUR AND TELLO, EXHIBITING THESAME CONVENTION IN THE TREATMENT OP WOOLLEN GARMENTS. The seated statuette (Fig, 37) is from Ashur, and the treatment of the garmentis precisely similar to that in early Tello work (Figs. 88 and 39).[After , No. 54, p. 18, and Dec, pi. 2 [bis), No. 1, and pi. 21 (ter), No. 3.] Assyria to power. It may well have included theNorth-Mesopotamian region known afterwards as theland of Mitanni, whose rulers are found in temporaryoccupation of Nineveh, as their predecessors may haveestabHshed themselves at Ashur. But, however thatmay be, it is clear that the historic city of Ashur was 1 For the purpose of interpreting lunar observations, for example, andparticularly for eclipses, the face of the moon was divided into four quarters,that on the right referring to Akkad, that on the left to Elam, the upperquarter to Amurru and the lower to Subartu ; and one Assyrian astrologer,when reporting to his master
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