The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . extendsfrom the latter part of the eighth to nearly the middle Chap, VI. BAS-RELIEFS OF THE SECOND PERIOD. 433 of the seventh century before our era; or, moreexactly, from about 721, to 667. It belongsto the reigns of the three consecutive kings—Sargon,Sennacherib, and Esar-haddon, who were contem-porary with Hezekiah and Manasseh in Judsea, andwith the Sabacos (Shebeks) and Tirhakah (Tehrak)in Egypt. The sources which chiefly illustrat
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . extendsfrom the latter part of the eighth to nearly the middle Chap, VI. BAS-RELIEFS OF THE SECOND PERIOD. 433 of the seventh century before our era; or, moreexactly, from about 721, to 667. It belongsto the reigns of the three consecutive kings—Sargon,Sennacherib, and Esar-haddon, who were contem-porary with Hezekiah and Manasseh in Judsea, andwith the Sabacos (Shebeks) and Tirhakah (Tehrak)in Egypt. The sources which chiefly illustrate thisperiod are the magnificent series of engravings pub-lished by MM. Flandin and Botta,^ together with theoriginals of a certain portion of them in the Louvre ;the engravings in Mr. Layards first folio work, frompi. 68 to pi. 83; those in his second folio work frompi. 7 to pi. 56 ; the originals of many of these in theBritish Museum; several monuments procured forthe British Museum by Mr. Loftus; and a series ofunpublished drawings by Mr. Boutcher in the samegreat national collection.^ The most obvious characteristic of this period, when. Trees (Nimrud). Monument de Ninive, PaiIs, descriptive letter-press is by The drawings were executedby M. Flandin, and engraved by MM. VOL. I. Sellier, Peronard, Oury, and others. ^ These drawings have been kindlyplaced at my disposal by IMr. Vaux,of the Antiquities Department. 2 F 434 THE SECOND MONARCHY. Chap. VI. we compare it with the preceding one, is the advancewhich the artists have made in their vegetable forms, and the pre-Raphaehte accuracywhich they affect inall the accessoriesof their representa-tions. In the bas-reliefs of the firstperiod we have, forthe most part, nobackgrounds. Fi-gures alone occupythe slabs, or figures^ and buildings. InI, some few instances^ water is represented2 in a very rude fa-shion;^ and once ortwice only do wemeet with trees,*which, when they oc-cur, are of the poor-est and strange
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