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 . Clay Statuette from KhorsabaJ(after Botta). Fig. Lion-hunt, from Nimrud. en. Al.] METALS USED.—IVORIES. 225 but as produced abnormally, under a strong foreign influ-ence. The usual material of the Assyrian ornamental metallurgyis bronze, composed of one part of tin to ten of copper ^^^ whichare exactly the proportions considered to be best by theGreeks and Romans, and still in ordinary use at the pres
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 . Clay Statuette from KhorsabaJ(after Botta). Fig. Lion-hunt, from Nimrud. en. Al.] METALS USED.—IVORIES. 225 but as produced abnormally, under a strong foreign influ-ence. The usual material of the Assyrian ornamental metallurgyis bronze, composed of one part of tin to ten of copper ^^^ whichare exactly the proportions considered to be best by theGreeks and Romans, and still in ordinary use at the presentday. In some instances, where more than common strengthwas retpiired, as in tlie legs of tripods and tables, the bronzewas ingeniously cast (jver an inner structure of This]>ractice was unknown to modern metallurgists until the dis-covery of the Assyrian specimens, from which it has been suc-cessfully ^ We may presume that, besides bronze, the Assyrians used,to a certain extent, silver and gold as materials for ornamentalmetal-work. The earrings, bracelets, and armlets Avorn bythe kings and the great officers of state were probably of themore valuahl* metal, while the similar ornaments Avorn bythose of minor ra
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