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... Assyrian Room in the British Museum , and the Royal Asiatic Society pos- sesses parallel reproductions . It is from the latter that the illustrative Photograph has been derived . the identificatory legends of which almost uniformly ...
... Assyrian Room in the British Museum , and the Royal Asiatic Society pos- sesses parallel reproductions . It is from the latter that the illustrative Photograph has been derived . the identificatory legends of which almost uniformly ...
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... Assyrian kings , as the authoritative definition of the lion - weights in the letters of that alphabet sufficiently de- clares ; and we are further justified in assuming , in all cases where two Scribes are represented in the royal ...
... Assyrian kings , as the authoritative definition of the lion - weights in the letters of that alphabet sufficiently de- clares ; and we are further justified in assuming , in all cases where two Scribes are represented in the royal ...
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... Assyrian king on a lump of clay , which was supposed to have formed the connecting attestation of the less permanent substance upon which some royal treaty or compact had been engrossed . In the same closet were found several ...
... Assyrian king on a lump of clay , which was supposed to have formed the connecting attestation of the less permanent substance upon which some royal treaty or compact had been engrossed . In the same closet were found several ...
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... Assyrian seal , with a device representing a priest ministering before the king , probably a royal signet . " The annexed woodcut outlines represent six of the Ethiopian seals , copied from the extant clay - impressions of the original ...
... Assyrian seal , with a device representing a priest ministering before the king , probably a royal signet . " The annexed woodcut outlines represent six of the Ethiopian seals , copied from the extant clay - impressions of the original ...
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... Assyrian sculptures are represented as making use of a reed , or other description of pen , with which they wrote upon a flexible leather or parchment scroll , employing the indicator or , possibly , the first and second fingers of the ...
... Assyrian sculptures are represented as making use of a reed , or other description of pen , with which they wrote upon a flexible leather or parchment scroll , employing the indicator or , possibly , the first and second fingers of the ...
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