Page To Illustrate Assyrian Art Antique Picture 1914
A print from a disbound book published 1914, with an unrelated picture or text on the reverse side.
Suitable for framing, the page size including text and border is approx 8" x 10.5" or 20cm x 27cm.
Image size approx 6.25 inches x 8.25 inches
This
is an antique print not a modern copy and shows normal signs of age or
previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any
scans as they form part of the description.
The date given of 1914 is the printing date, the actual date of creation can be earlier.
All prints will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit.
While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos
accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in
monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in
brightness or contrast to the actual item.
Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
PAGE TO ILLUSTRATE ASSYRIAN ART.
Reading from left to right Great vase of baked clay decorated with dragons in relief. Bronze knives and axe-heads. Colossal limestone head of a winged bull. Limestone model of a basket. Bronze bowl from Nimrud. showing Egyptian influence. Portion of a bronze throne. Mythological being represented as fertilizer of the date-palm. Wounded lion from Ashur-bani.psls palace at Nineveh. Corner of pavement slab from Ashur.bani-paFs palace, the design reproducing a rug or carpet. The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser Ill. Figure of Ashur-nasir-pal Ill. The god Nabu from Nimrud. Baked clay vessel, with figure of favourable demon Portion of one of the bronze bands from the Gates of Shalmaneser Ill. Winged lion from Nimrucl, which flanked a palace entrance.
Reading from left to right Great vase of baked clay decorated with dragons in relief. Bronze knives and axe-heads. Colossal limestone head of a winged bull. Limestone model of a basket. Bronze bowl from Nimrud. showing Egyptian influence. Portion of a bronze throne. Mythological being represented as fertilizer of the date-palm. Wounded lion from Ashur-bani.psls palace at Nineveh. Corner of pavement slab from Ashur.bani-paFs palace, the design reproducing a rug or carpet. The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser Ill. Figure of Ashur-nasir-pal Ill. The god Nabu from Nimrud. Baked clay vessel, with figure of favourable demon Portion of one of the bronze bands from the Gates of Shalmaneser Ill. Winged lion from Nimrucl, which flanked a palace entrance.