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The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria

CHAPTER VI
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3], and of the crouching lion in the illustration [PLATE LXIX., Fig.

2]; to the lifelike force of both ass and hounds in the representation [PLATE LXX., Fig.

1], and here particularly to the bold drawing of one of the dogs' heads in full, instead of in profile--a novelty now first occurring in the bas-reliefs.

As instances of still bolder attempts at unusual attitudes, and at the same time of a certain amount of foreshortening, two further illustrations are appended.

The sorely wounded lion in the first [PLATE LXX., Fig.


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