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Title: The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902
Subjects: Mauritius Export Development and Investment Authority History, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive
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hen thus hardened, to Eng-land, as their examination wouldhave been imijortant towards deter-miningr the ethnic character of the Chap. V. VASES AND LAMPS, 115 form, or indeed any sense of beauty as distinguishedfrom utility. Such specimens are in fact somewhatscarce, but they are not wholly wanting. Amongthe vases and drinking-vessels with which the Chal-dcean tombs abound, while the majority are charac-terised by a certain rudeness both of shape and mate-rial,^ we occasionally meet with specimens of a highercharacter, which would not shrink from a comparisonwith the ordinary productions of Grreek fictile art.A number of these are represented in the woodcutbelow, which exhibits several forms not hitherto pub-lished—some taken from drawings by Mr. Churchill,the artist who accompanied Mr. Loftus on his firstjourney; others drawn for the present work fromvases now in the British Museum. It is evident that, while the vases of the first groupare roughly moulded by the hand, the vases and
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Chaldtxan vases, drinking-vessels, and amphora of the second period. ^ The vases represented in the cut I chopped straw, which sometimes ap-are in a coarse clay, mixed v/ith I pears upon the surface. I 2 116 THE FIRST MONARCHY. Chap. V.