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Manual of oriental antiquities : including the architecture, sculpture, and industrial arts of Chaldæa, Assyria, Persia, Syria, Judæa, Phœnicia, and Carthage

Babelon, Ernest, 1854-1924 · 1906 · London : H. Grevel · 5 pictures

A 1906 London manual by French scholar Ernest Babelon surveying the art, architecture and crafts of Chaldaea, Assyria, Persia, Syria, Judaea, Phoenicia and Carthage, written for students of antiquity. Its engravings show carved reliefs and a chariot, with bearded figures, winged monsters, cuneiform inscriptions, oxen and a spoked wheel, offering a designer strongly stylised ancient Near Eastern motifs and borders.

Art, Asian · Oriental antiquities

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